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...postwar limbo may be worse. Grieving is a job for the strong. So says French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier in his exemplary Life and Nothing But. This epic romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War I, reins in its anger but not its wistful passion. Gruff Philippe Noiret plays a French officer assigned to choose the corpse that will serve as the nation's Unknown Soldier. As he assists two women -- an attractive aristocrat (Sabine Azema) and a young teacher (Pascale Vignal) -- in locating their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred battlefields. They ) include...
Alone in the theater, Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste), the little Sicilian town's ex officio movie censor, rings a bell whenever anything on the screen strikes him as salacious. Up in the booth, Alfredo, the projectionist (Philippe Noiret, who is becoming Spencer Tracy to our age), slaps a piece of paper into the reel marking the spot the priest has X-rated. The walls of Alfredo's aerie are festooned with ribbons of film he has cut from movies before showing them to the public, for the good father sees in even the most chaste movie kiss an occasion...
Perhaps the French are better at family affairs. Trintignant's wife Nadine makes a decent domestic comedy-weepie called Next Summer; Trintignant appears in the film, as do their beyond-gorgeous daughter Marie and Nadine's brother Christian Marquand. They all provide support for Philippe Noiret, as the aging philanderer at the film's heart. While Noiret's exquisite wife (Claudia Cardinale) is giving birth to their sixth child, he luxuriates in the ardor of his latest bimbette. What his wife sees as playing around, he sees as just playing -- and how natural for this overgrown bear of a little...
...course of this process, many will manage to do themselves in; the rest will find themselves in such a weakened condition that they will be easy prey for even the laziest lawman. In Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate), Director Bertrand Tavernier has had the good sense to cast Philippe Noiret, the underplayer's underplayer, as his seemingly indolent and ineffectual gendarme. Not so much as a knowing smirk crosses his angelic avenger's face as he sets most of his relatives and friends (including his mistress, played by Isabelle Huppert) on their self-destructive courses. When Cordier draws...
...them (Philippe Noiret) is a judge, a man who not only upholds the traditional liberal and rational virtues but actually believes in them. This despite the fact that in Italy just now, a man pre siding over a terrorist's case (which the judge is about to do) can get himself killed just for doing his job. The second (Michele Placido) is a factory worker, a militant trade unionist whose apparently congenital bad temper is not improved by the fact that his marriage has just been sundered. The third (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is a teacher in a reformatory, a secular...