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...these elegant stories are the surprise of passion v. the safety of tradition, abstraction v. spontaneity, and more broadly, the secrets of art (including Fowles' own art) played against a fictive "reality" that represents merely his own deeper lamination of imagined life. Fowles, like any other storyteller, tells his tale???and then has the shimmering perversity to let his readers know that maybe he was lying all the time, or that life itself was lying. ? Lance Morrow
Thereafter, the picture jumps to its task, reveals itself as one of the greatest of the camera spectacles. Carcassonne was borrowed by the Government to show the seige of the medieval town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale???how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From...
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