Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frantic, Moreau plotted with her lover to murder a burdensome husband; in The Lovers, Moreau deserted her husband with a spontaneity the film's tone exalted; and in Vie Privec, BB played the stock role recently aired by Julie Christie in Darling, of the poor little movie star who can't have quite everything she covets...
...collaboration of Bardot and Moreau has evidently cost Malle a good deal of directorial control, and every inch of control sacrificed in Viva Maria! has blossomed into yards of artistic chaos...
Most of the film concerns rebellion led by the Marisa against one Mexican feudal-type baron named Rodriguez, whom the troupe discovers beating a serf. As the opening credits shows us, Brigitte grew up tossing bombs with her anarchist father; Moreau goes political for the first time when she falls in love with the Christ-figure revolutionary Flores (George Hamilton). In the closing moments of the film we get a fast sequence of castles exploding all over Mexico as the revolution prevails...
...account for the anticlimax, where sequences build to such banal exchanges as: (Bardot) "If my father saw me in clothes like these!" (Moreau) "Hurry up! We're going to the dance!" Then the beginnings of an exit, such as you get on high-school stages when there's no room in the wings. It's clumsy, and unlike Malle. Some of these scenes might seem less vacuous to French ears deaf to the banal dialogue spoken in English. I suspect that one scene, where some Negro officials sit around sipping tea, is built almost entirely of phrases from English textbooks...
Matisse meant his art to soothe, not shock. Said he: "I dream of an art that is pure, calm and free of disturbing subject matter-something like a comfortable armchair in which one can recover from physical fatigue." One of his early teachers, Gustave Moreau, had predicted: "Matisse will simplify painting." He did, without sacrificing delicacy. Said Matisse: "I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitute a picture." He simply distilled sunshine...