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Among the financiers of Me were François Truffaut and Claude Berri, whose films, The 400 Blows and The Two of Us, were also examinations of childhood. In this case, their role was strictly financial; Maurice Pialat deserves the credit for his direction of citizens who say more about life than they say about themselves...
...Easy Rider, They Shoot Horses, Z..... All these great movies in one year! And productivity! Antonioni at least did something, whether for better or worse..." He caught my eye and smiled before the kill. "... And there was one a week from Godard." He started to smile broadly. "....And a Truffaut or two..." He leaned over and laughed. "Make that: a Truffaut or three..." Hysterical laughter. He started another drink...
Filming a familiar tale that appears to be heavily autobiographical, Writer-Director Paul Williams, 25, pays the requisite homage to Truffaut and Welles, not to mention The Graduate and Goodbye, Columbus. The warmth and wit, however, are completely his own. He roots the action firmly in time and place ("Long Island, 1960"), and from the vantage point of a new decade it seems a long and innocent time away. But Williams makes the frustrations of young love agonizingly familiar, the ache of awakening sexuality vivid and true. For pure eroticism, a scene in a beach shower between Paul and Christine...
...superb acting and beautiful music. Probably more talent has gone into the making of this film than any other of the past year. The color photography by Raoul Coutard (who directed the photography for almost all of Godard's films as well as Jules and Jim by Truffaut) is exceptional. The camera is not a passive observer of the scene but plays an active role. The shots of the fights in the demonstrations are superb because the camera moves around and sweeps you into the maelstrom and confusion of the demonstration as if you were there. The confusion...
...Jean-Pierre Leaud plays Truffaut's autobiographical persona of The 400 Blows grown up-and he is great as he takes a variety of jobs in Paris and tries to romance with the boss' wife, a whore, and the proverbial girl-next-door. While Stolen Kisses is beautiful as a pure romantic ballad (the film unfolds within the context of the song "I Wish You Love"), Truffaut throws in enough wildly dissonant notes (the pathetic clients at the detective agency where Leaud works, the strange man who confesses love to the heroine at the end) to undermine one's hope...