Word: soleil
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Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is a highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turn a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
EXETER: A crime picture which is sometimes spoiled by psychological pre- tensions, PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon) is still the best French supense flicker in some time. It moves quickly through the story of an attempted perfect crime. Spectacular color shots of the Adriatic and Marie de la Foret. Evenings...
EXETER: PLEIN SOLEIL (Purple Noon), suspense a la Francaise, offers brilliant color shots of Italy and the Adriatic; Alain Delon manipulates capable cast (including the luscious Marie de la Foret) as he attempts "le crime parfait." The dialogue is marred only by a linguistic "embarras de richesse." A fast-paced and well-plotted movie. Evenings...
...Indian, for they were not intended to be. "No idea belonging to folklore or to the history of art," said Corbu, "can 'be taken into consideration in such an enterprise." The city is universal, ancient, and wholly modern; its major buildings are orchestrations of pillars and brises soleil, of soaring archways and intertwining ramps, of random openings and tense façades that dance like notes on a musical score. They are princely and crude at the same time-both beautiful and brutal...
Then came the age of the Roi Soleil, whose grandiloquent tastes did not run to the simple beauty of Georges de La Tour. In time, De La Tour's name disappeared completely-not only from France, but from all of Europe-and it was not until 1915 that two of his paintings were formally identified by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Since World War II his popularity has soared-but even today only about 20 of his paintings are known to exist...