Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no good reason to slip on down to the Brattle this week; any book would be easier going. The Red and the Black deals exam period diversion a death blow. Claude Autant-Lara has allowed himself to be carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate...
...insistence on showing Julien to be a maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...
...cannot cast aspersions upon Gerard Phillipe's portrayal of Julien. Its lugubrious, studied quality is well in line with the movie's tone. The technicolor is, perhaps, the finest feature of the film, making quite clear that the movie is steeped in symbolism. Red and Black come off nicely in color, but, unfortunately, the director seems to think that such visual imagery can make up for more sophisticated dramatic devices...
...total, The Red and the Black would make an excellent television serial to be run at eleven in the morning. It is just the type of movie to coax tears from the housewife, but yawns from the student. The best that can be done is to wait out the Brattle in hope that its next flick will better becloud the academic mind. This simply hasn...
...Weld North Military Committee claimed the world's first successful rocket nose cone recovery yesterday, retrieving a 25-inch silver-and-red metallic object and its parachute from atop a tree between Weld and Widener...