Word: rard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other end of the scale is Jean Bérard, a 26-year-old railway worker. Bérard wanted to get married at 21, after doing his 18-month military service, but he couldn't find a room. He and his fiancée postponed their wedding again and again, eventually decided to go through with it, lived with his or her family for two years. Finally, in desperation, they moved into roomier quarters with an uncle on a chicken farm in the Landes, the sparsely populated coastal stretch between Bordeaux and Biarritz...
...this-is-how-it-really-was quality, Heartbreak is far more than a newsreel. It threads its story on the trial-by-fire of young Lieut. Gérard Garcet, a replacement starch-fresh from St. Cyr. At first Career Officer Garcet learns a basic lesson-war is mostly waiting...
Richard or Johann? For three-quarters of the evening, it was impossible to tell that the words were in English (in a translation by John Gutman), but it hardly mattered, because most of the conversation that came through was a bore. Rolf Gérard's scenery, on the other hand, was both attractive and understandable: the vast gold and white ballroom in the second act had beautifully costumed couples waltzing in the background, and the third act's red-plush hotel lobby was an atmospheric masterpiece...
...young composer (Gérard Philipe) lives in a small town in France, teaching school all day, writing music half the night, waiting to hear if the Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...
...between trips on his private time machine, Gérard wears an otherworldly expression that begins to worry his friends. Is he considering suicide? They ply him with wine, let him win at cards. In short, they make him late for his triple date in dreamland. And what happened to a man who kept a lady waiting in 1900, in 1830, and in 1790 proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner...