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...labor law at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain, and was exposed to European leftist politics through books that were banned in his own country. His reading included news about the struggles of the Spanish Communist Party and the expulsion in 1964 of two prominent members, Writer Jorge Semprun and Marxist Economic Theorist Fernando Claudin, for breaches of party discipline. González realized his freedom-loving mind could never fit into so narrow a mold. Says he: "Claudin and Semprun are responsible for my being a Socialist today, not a Communist." González joined the party...
Screenplay by Jorge Semprun...
...gather that what makes him more attractive than her husband, who is funnier and probably better company over the long haul, is that belief in something beyond oneself tends to make a fellow more exciting sexually. A dubious point, but sufficient for a movie which, like others written by Semprun (notably La Guerre Est Finie), insists that there is a link between the romantic and the revolutionary spirits. Since that is the only worthwhile humanistic argument for maintaining a rebellious posture, and certainly the only likable one, his pictures tend to have a worldly and rueful air that is appealing...
Everything in Special Section is based on recent history. The events bear both the sting and the awkward com edy of truth. But unlike Z, a previous Semprun - Costa-Gavras collaboration based on the 1963 assassination of Gregorios Lambrakis, a Greek politician, Special Section lacks the narrative drive that can make a good melodrama with political meaning. Instead, the film is a puppet show of moral indignation...
Such special sections did exist in France during the war; it is also true, as a postscript informs us, that not all of those who presided over them have been brought to account. But Costa-Gavras and Semprun only make the outrageous seem petty, and tragedy a thing of no greater human consequences than an other bad movie...