Word: ren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People are ungrateful to the ones who make them laugh," observed Producer René Clair, cinema specialist in laughter-&-tears. "They are grateful to the ones who make them cry. The idea of beauty is associated with tears...
...About Town (RKO Radio; Pathe) is the first movie that René Clair has made in France since 1934. The Brussels World Film Festival recently chose it-under its original title, Le Silence Est d'Or-as the finest motion picture made anywhere last year...
...certainly a finished piece of work, and it contains the bright promise that René Clair, one of the few outstanding talents in the film business, may not have finished his real work in the movies. Yet after completing Man About Town, Director Clair returned to Hollywood, an environment that has somewhat cramped his style for years. The sense of something finished hangs over the very conception of the film: it is, primarily and masterfully, an essay on moviemaking...
Incredibly, the shapely Renée had defied the party; she had voted for herself. She simply thought she would be a better mayor than Monsieur Leonard. Nine Gaullists, two Socialists and two Popular Republicans had gleefully agreed...
Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...