Word: poil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poil de Carotte (Pathè-Natan). From European studios have come by far the most searching film studies of childhood and adolescence. While Hollywood was planning some new caprice for Jackie Cooper, Berlin was turning out such cinematic masterpieces as Maedchen in Uniform and Emil und die Detektiv (not yet released in the U. S.). This French production (spoken in French with English subtitles) and the delicate performance of young Robert Lynen measure up to the high German standard...
...called Poil de Carotte because he really had red hair. It was simply another indignity slapped on him by his thoughtless family, a preoccupied father and a queer pinched mother who hated him so much that she did not hesitate to tell the servants that he was dirty, sullen and a liar. She terrified Poil de Carotte, who had come to her late in life and unwanted, widening the breach between her and her silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized...
...will be different from now on, Francois." promises the contrite father, using Poil de Carotte's Christian name for the first time. "There are two of us. A votre sant...
...votre santè, papa," says tear-stained Poil de Carotte...