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...screenplay and dialogue are by Françoise Sagan; she and Chabrol started out to do a picture about the life of George Sand, but became bored with the idea and switched from blue story to Bluebeard in mid-project. The film is mean to ladies in more ways than murder. Its closeups of fading Film Queens Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan constitute a photographic invasion of privacy. One corpulent beldam, a doomed weekend guest at Landru's Art Nouveau rookery near Paris, eats raspberries from Landru's hand and ends up with jam dribbling wretchedly down...
Divorced. By Francoise Sagan, 27. onetime prodigy of French letters; Second Husband Robert Westhoff, 32, American expatriate sculptor; after one year of marriage, one child; in Paris...
...said that the industrial revolution emancipated woman economically, and that the contraceptive emancipated her sexually. In terms of creativity and morality, at least, the Sarah Lawrence education emanicaptes the woman intellectually. She fancies herself infinitely closer to Doris Lessing and Simone du Beauvoir than to Jackie Kennedy or Francois Sagan...
There are five episodes in Love. The one from Italy is directed by Renzo (son of Roberto) Rossellini, the one from Germany by Marcel (son of Max) Ophuls, the one from Japan by Novelist Shintaro ("The Japanese Franç01s Sagan") Ishihara, the one from Poland by Andrzej (Ashes and Diamonds) Wajda. Wajda's work is keen and sardonic, but the episode from France, directed by François (Jules and Jim) Truffaut, makes the other three look sick sick sick. It is cruel, touching, funny. It is true to life at an age when life is true...
Playtime. In the good old days in Hollywood, when a girl fell in love with the boy next door, the kids got married and lived happily ever after. In this new French film, based on a story by Françoise Sagan, the girl (Jean Seberg) is a spoiled NATO tomato, the boy (Christian Marquand) is a kept man, and they would obviously rather have a ball than a wedding...