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...Blochs are at home. In the version we saw, currently playing at the E.M. Loew's Fine Arts Cinema II in Portland, Me.--beneath the unpromising marquee "Directed by Inga Bergman"--everyone speaks English, except for Gould, who for all the world sounds like Charles Bronson in a Japanese shootem-up. And Bergman's sententious (nee "sensitive") English script pays no more attention to the way people really talk than Gould's jerky rendition pays to the way they screw. That about does it for the language...
Truffaut solidified his reputation with two films that are still considered landmarks in modern cinema history. Shoot the Piano Player was both a sly, imitative tribute to the Warner Bros, shootem-ups of the '30s and the existential drama of a man (Charles Aznavour) who can no longer respond to life. Jules and Jim was a near-perfect evocation of Montparnassian fin de siecle life, informed with psychological observations of the '60s. A blend of saline tragedy and dulcet comedy, it reinforced the burgeoning reputation of Actress Jeanne Moreau...
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