Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Maneuver (U.M.P.O.). "Love," René Clair announced recently, "is a very serious matter." To prove his point, Director Clair offered this picture, which happily proves nothing - except that Clair is as good as he ever was. In 34 years he has made more than 20 movies, and most of them (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat, The Ghost Goes West, Beauties of the Night) are lovely things-as breezy as a Paris gutter, as delicate as a young French pea. This one is no exception...
Depend upon it-depend upon René Clair-that young devil had the luck of the draw. She was a pretty little milliner (Michele Morgan) from Paris. Not even a husband to worry about, and only one lover (Jean Desailly). The lieutenant gave chase-and right there his luck gave out. He met her at a ball; she was distant. He asked if he might take her home; she refused. He followed her anyway; she shut the door in his face. He crept into her boudoir; her lover came calling before anything could happen. In the church, in the park...
...color (nobody could guess that he is working with color for the first time), actor and setting, sophisticated laughter and simple sadness in a limpid mood that lies somewhere between innocence and experience, heartache and heartache. It is the mood that is created by many Renaissance love songs, and René Clair sings it as sweetly as Ronsard...
Critics sometimes point to his Tragic Sense of Life as one of the works that inspired the existentialist movement in Paris after World War II. Influenced by the moral austerity of Ibsen and the mystical ruminations of Danish Theologian-Existentialist Sören Kierkegaard, the book argued the toss between faith and reason in a way that could not fail to cause offense to the Spanish hierarchy. In Unamuno's picture of man, man's worst friend was his dogma. He argued: flesh-and-blood man must assert his identity in the face of death. This seemed...
...Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist? One who asks the great questions-"Who am I?" "Why am I here?"-and finds no answer. Can a Christian be an existentialist? He may ask the existentialist questions and suffer the existentialist agonies of doubt and darkness, but for him the answer...