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...irony is that there are plenty of trees with overhanging branches, plenty of sunny days, and plenty of resourceful students who could surely scour up some tires and rope. Idleness beckons all around us, warded off only by the Calvinist remonstrances of our upbringings. And so the tire swing finds itself rarified, parceled out inside a certain number of hours and inside a certain perimeter of fence...
...even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected by a sophisticated alarm system, there's no one but Dassin to thank for it. An official remake of Rififi is due out next year, with Al Pacino...
...museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick the scimitar and replace the case, all without touching the electronically sensitive floor. It's a swell exercise in suspense, and one of Dassin's finest illustrations of men at work, but it doesn't come till...
...major government shakeup that often follow electoral setbacks. His own decidedly more discreet behavior in the past few weeks suggests he may have learned important lessons about what kind of profile the French expect from Elysée residents. His public insulting of an elderly detractor on a rope-line last month notwithstanding, Sarkozy has made an effort to control his sharp tongue, keep his love life away from the press, and scale back his former media omnipresence to occasional, sober appearances and speeches more in line with what the French are used to in their President. Ironically, Sarkozy...
...accidental campaign allusions, and the old-jokes meant to keep senior members of the audience in the loop, soon subside, as the film starts parading its strong story sense and its plethora of heart. There's an old-fashioned suspense sequence, in which Horton tries to navigate a rickety rope bridge, that's as well choreographed as any action scene from an Indiana Jones movie. So is the climax, with the Who-villagers shouting in desperate chorus to save both their world and their benefactor's life. I won't say it's emotionally wrenching, but the man sitting...