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...whom an introduction is impossible"), she says, "Do I have to come at you and cut you down?" She has cut her son (Colgate Salsbury) down to a homosexual, her daughter (Marcie Hubert) to a bewildered emotional waif, her husband (Don McHenry) to a mumbler of prayers in his pillow...
...cruise down Burma's Irrawaddy River. This week, both the Burmese Army and the R.A.F. having confessed failure in massive teddy bear hunts, someone in the royal family was bound to be shopping for a Christmas replacement for the furry creature that had been Alexandra's pillow pal since childhood...
There are those who will find it hard to believe that a revolt staged by a handful of schoolboys could provide material for anything but a romping farce. Such people will be rather harshly surprised by Jean Vigo's Zero de Conduite, a searing film that uses a pillow fight and other boyish escapades to create a macabre, half-real world of hatred and rebellion...
This sequence exemplifies Vigo's approach throughout the film. He takes a pillow fight, a normal event in a dorm of twelve-year-olds, and transforms it into a fierce and successful weapon against authority. Then he cuts all this furious activity to a halt and momentarily renders it quite unreal. The pace of the slow-motion section underlines the wildness of the fight and its stylization makes the preposterous pillow victory seem very real by contrast...
...seldom mild, but the Dad-why-can't-I-have-a-hunting-knife set doesn't mind. This incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North will delight every ten-year-old who ever wrestled his pillow and pretended it was a grizzly bear...