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...tries to keep her stolen painting afloat while swimming to shore from a sinking ship, but not nearly as funny as it was when Katherine Hepburn wrestled with her little leopard in Bringing Up Baby. The red gas stove is certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul Rappeneau seems to understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination of characters and incidents with any modern twists...
LOVERS LIKE US brings together Yves Montand, as a brilliant perfumery chemist playing hooky on a Venezuelan island, and Catherine Deneuve, as an ex-nightclub hostess on the lam with a stolen Toulouse-Lautrec. She nearly gets the chemist killed in a highway chase, invades his island and sinks his boat, so naturally he falls in love with her. He locks her out of his house, tries to deport her bodily and finally knocks her out with a pineapple, so naturally she falls in love with him. All this, in the right hands, could make a diverting screwball comedy. These...
...favorable reception of Z in the West, but the movie has a lot more going for it besides. None of Costa-Gavras subsequent tracts has come close to capturing the gut-rending tension that glues the viewer of Z to the edge of his seat. Yves Montand turns in yet another tour de force as the pacifist legislator whose brutal assassination triggers the investigation that inexorably leads to the top layer of the Junta: Bear in mind, however, that no Watergate-style denouement awaits the generals. Irene Pappas' brooding widow adds little to the film; the role limits...
...this way is a refreshing and salutary experience," says Yves Montand. No wonder. Of late, he has been assassinated in Z, tortured in The Confession and kidnaped and murdered in State of Siege, but in the comedy he is now filming in Italy, Le Grand Esco-griffe (an exuberant man too clever for his own good), Montand is permitted the luxury of survival. "This comedy is sublime," he says. Ridiculous, too: the hopelessly ill-fated kidnaper-star ends up stuck with the kidnapee...
...School, saying, "If God had intended me to stay on, He wouldn't have had President Bok ask me to retire." In his search for Stendhal's successor, Bok is reported to be considering Robert Moses, Deane Lord, Jesus Alou, Isaiah Robertson, Frank Church, Adam Clayton Powell and Yves Montand...