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...year). He has long since moved off his office cot and into a modern Wolfsburg house, supplied by the Volkswagen company, where his wife and two grown daughters live in a manner not much different from automakers in Detroit. He collects modern art (latest acquisition: a Renoir), serves fine wines to his guests. Up at 6:30, he drives himself to work in a Volkswagen, spends his evenings reading business correspondence and studying Volkswagen problems all over the world. While most of his traveling is on business, Nordhoff found time last year for a safari in Africa (bag: two lions...
...Golden Coach. Jean Renoir's costume comedy of Spain's golden age, as rich in color as his father's paintings; with Anna Magnani at her best (TIME...
...Golden Coach. Jean Renoir's costume comedy of Spain's golden age, as rich in color as his father's paintings; with Anna Magnani at her earthy best (TIME, Feb.1...
...scenario, freely adapted from a short play by Prosper Merimee, is just the sort Renoir likes - a nice, loose-fitting smock, with plenty of frayed places for inspiration to stitch up at leisure. In The Golden Coach, as in The River, he has stitched (with the help of his nephew Claude Renoir, who supervised the photography in both pictures) a Joseph's coat of heart-catching colors. The colors weave and flow in a rhythm that carries one image vigorously into the next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi...
...hear her grunt an Italian monosyllable -"Eh!"-is better than a week in Bologna. And when she laughs, she seems to laugh out of every pore at once, as if it were just a more enjoyable way of sweating. In fact, Magnani is almost too strong for Renoir to hold. At every move she takes the stage from his main theme, a Pirandellian play on appearance and reality, theater and life; and it is just as well for the picture that she does...