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...rich Parisian banker, but above all child of an ebullient and optimistic age, Lartigue recorded the expensive frolics of his family and friends-auto racing, glider flying, womanizing. With rare charm, he also caught the nostalgic flavors and spicy fashions of seven decades -from pleated cascades of ankle-length silk in the Bois de Boulogne (1904) to the rayon trickle of miniskirts on Carnaby Street (1968). One of the graphic confections of the year...
...unIrish name takes over. And finally, Cushing himself is gone, less than a month after the ceremony which concluded his life's work. It's fitting; you know it could hardly have been otherwise. But still the memories linger, of the rasping twang, of the swishing of his red silk robes, of a life that was part of Boston's life...
...secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38. Ohta, one of California's most prominent eye surgeons, had been shot twice in the back and once under the arm. The others had been shot in the head, and all were bound with their hands in front of them with the bright silk scarves and ties of which Dr. Ohta was so fond...
Some scenes, like a blue-lit stroll down the Faubourg, like a dance-hall in which two silk-swathed women dance a drunken, passionate tango, like an amphitheatre-like hospital for the mentally ill where the whiteness of the walls is relieved only by the paleness of pallid flesh, are demonically spell-binding. In fact, the succession of images-a giant stone head of Mussolini dragged across a bridge by two motorcycles, the fire-lit nude body of a homosexual eating dead cats amid the ruins of the Forum, Trintignant's eyes-recalls Fellini Satyricon in their bizarre intensity...
Actor Truffaut, decked in frock coat and silk hat, is a splendid blend of pomposity and curiosity. But Director Truffaut is lethargic and clinical. The Wild Child is never touched by his characteristic warmth; its ironies are all predictable, save the final one: this is Truffaut's crudest work, as if it were the first film in the canon and not the latest...