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...critic that shows through most plainly. Tanner has watched Truffaut, Godard, and Rohmer closely, and he has learned his lessons well. His story, realistic enough in substance, has that fringe of the unlikely which made the best of the New Wave so eminently palatable. Pierre (Jean-Luc Bideau), a struggling young writer, is commissioned to produce a television script to be based on a recent incident in the news: a young girl called Rosemonde was accused by her uncle of attempted murder with his old army rifle. The girl, for her part, claimed the gun went off while the uncle...
...nice things about La Salamandre, one more word of praise will doubtless pass unnoticed. Be that as it may--Alain Tanner's La Salamandre is as pleasant and an intelligent a film as any to appear this year. A Swiss product made with a French sensibility it beats anything Truffaut has done in years and at its best out Rohmers Rohmer...
...FRENCH NEW WAVE lost its steam in the mid-sixties, when the experiments of the early part of the decade began to turn into repetition on the one hand and polemic on the other. Chabrol churned out Chabrols and Truffaut, Truffauts. Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave Godard politics. No one gave Resnais money. This same vacuum which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship...
Wild Child. Truffaut's fine chronicle of a wolf-child's education in enlightened eighteenth century France. Truflaut himself stars as Dr. Jean hard: Jean-Pierre Cargol is splendid as his lupine charge. With Stolen Kisses, a Truffaut of a slighter stripe. CINEMA 733. Tuesday. Call...
...extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best chronicle of a coming of age since Truffaut's The 400 Blows...