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...existentialists said that, since nothing really mattered very much, everything mattered. Since life was too utterly futile, everybody ought to live it to the hilt. "It is absurd for us to be born," proclaimed existentialism's protector, Jean-Paul Sartre. "It is absurd for us to die." For Parisian intellectuals, desperately in quest of an interesting pose, this was the ticket...
...suppose, inevitable that Singin' in the Rain be compared with Kelly's last vehicle, An American in Paris. It seemed to me that the latter film had the better ballet sequence, a good male singing voice in Georges Guetary, and a certain Continental charm absorbed from the Parisian locale...
...interior shots are filmed in the Stockholm studios, but Reynolds makes periodic tours of the Continent, setting up his camera for exteriors of Parisian boulevards, Viennese squares, Berlin freight yards. He often shoots unscheduled scenes (e.g., Actor Thor bursting out of an ornate doorway and running up an architecturally impressive street, or Actress Scott dodging through the ruins of Hamburg) and then writes them into future plots...
Orpheus is unique because the actors display a very limited range of emotion and expression. Jean Marais, as Orpheus, a Parisian poet, rarely raises his voice and never moves quickly. Yet his rugged features and stature, by the slightest change of movement, convey grief, irony, and happiness. This physical containment, especially in the scenes where he moves in "the other world" creates a breath-taking tension. The characters of Death (a women) and the chauffer enter this world they see one another in the rear-view mirror of the Rolls Royce in the same constrained manner...
Guys was no less exact when he turned to studies of Parisian life. Each night, from memories of daytime excursions, he worked on sketches of promenading beauties and dandies, coachmen and soldiers, Paris streets and fashionable salons. But few outside a small circle of friends knew or appreciated Guys's Paris sketches. Hundreds of drawings piled up in his studio or were peddled unsigned for a franc or less...