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DIED. MARCEL CARNE, 90, French film director; in the Paris suburb of Clamart. Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), made in collaboration with poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert, is widely considered by critics to be one of the best films of all times...
...triumphs over mediocre acting. In a cast of 23, the only strong playing comes from Dominique Serrand (also the play's director and coauthor) as Carne, coauthor Felicity Jones as leading lady Arletty and set designer Vincent Gracieux as screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Their brainchild is one of the foremost efforts this year on any U.S. regional stage. By a marvel of foresight, it will live further as the first-ever "import" into Yale Repertory Theater's season just after the Minneapolis run ends...
...comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...
...Jour Se Leve. Classic French romance written and directed by the Children of Paradise team. Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carne, and starring Jean Galsin, SYMPHONY CINEMA ONE., Tuesday...
...also an all-purpose Mr. Fixit shop in which customers can have new heels put on their shoes, keys copied or initials engraved on jewelry. For $1, weary travelers can get a shower in a fully equipped bathroom presided over by a woman attendant whom French Poet Jacques Prevert has nicknamed "Notre Dame des Lavabos"-Our Lady of the Washbasins...