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...pull of the "real," though, remains very strong, and Godard succumbs a few times. Shots of Parisian shoppers taken from a moving car, which looks more like documentary than anything in his previous films, alternate with very short shots and speeches of the two protagonists. Almost at the end of the film Juliette Berto complains, "The people- we talk about them, but we never see them." Godard, in the film's most romantic moment, cuts to a shot of a bus which, leaving the frame, reveals the People on the sidewalk. For an instant direct apprehension of the "real" seems...
Almost overnight, the world of Armand Portnoy, mild-mannered owner of a Parisian garage, was transformed. There were anonymous telephone calls, bad jokes from close friends and insinuating remarks from mere acquaintances. It was poor Portnoy's most harrowing experience since the day in World War II when he sought shelter from a German air raid by ducking under a loaded gasoline truck...
...garageman's problems began with the French publication last April of Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth's novel about a guilt-ridden, sex-obsessed young lawyer. Complained the Parisian Portnoy: "My wife read the book and very nearly had a nervous breakdown. I have two daughters at the Sorbonne, and their friends thought it a great joke to say, 'What a father you've got!' " On top of that, he added, "Alexander Portnoy and I are both Jewish." Worst of all, Portnoy's business partner is named Victor Branli, and branler...
...Festival opened with Francois Truffaut's newest film, L'Enfant Sauvage. Its story is simple and factually accurate, based on the journal of Jean Itard, a Parisian doctor who tries to turn a wild child found in the woods into a human being. Although the boy was thought to be deaf, dumb, and retarded by his discoverers, Itard manages to teach him to speak and understand language, to read, and ultimately, to love. L'Enfant Sauvage is a lot less violent than The Miracle Worker, a film which Truffaut admires, but the essential themes are similar: the birth...
...superlative skill and dogged determination of Conductor Colin Davis it might not have happened at all. For over a century, the French publishing house of Choudens owned the score but refused to release it. At one point, English Musicologists Cecil Gray and W.J. Turner even tried to hire the Parisian underworld to burglarize Choudens. The attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them and in 1969, the German firm of Barenreiter was able to publish the full score. The first complete performance in French-with Conductor...