Word: pailleron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monde Ou L'On S'Ennuie" is a charming relic of an almost forgotton period: the 1880's. A drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
...screen version of a Romantic Classic play written in the 1880's will be presented to Harvard patrons of the French cinema on Monday, February 24 and Friday, February 28 when "Le Monde ou L'on S' ennuie", by Edouard Pailleron, will be shown at the Geographical Institute on Divinity Avenue...