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Banners flowed forward into the spotlights: "Nous Sommes Madly for Adlai," "Adlai Likes Me," and "We Don't Want Nixon." The loudspeaker screamed "We won't be able to unload Adlai if you don't get back...
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, people have been abusing gadgets that work and the bourgeoisie that doesn't. But few have been as gracefully sarcastic as Rene Clair in his movie A Nous La Liberte, made in 1932. Just re-released, the film is still a model of good-humored satire...
Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...
...Nous avons nommé et nommons M. David notre premier peintre...
...recent gathering of the clergy of Toulouse, peppery, 83-year-old Cardinal Saliège pointed a blunt finger at a group of young priests sitting in the back of the room. "Nous vous avons à l'oeil, mes gaillards [We're keeping an eye on you, my lads]!" he warned them...