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...SOFT SKIN. The emotional trigonometry of a love triangle occupied by an aging intellectual, his wife, and a pretty airline stewardess is worked out with fine Gallic elegance by Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows), who conquers triteness with pure talent...
...excellent script of John Huston's movie version of Moby Dick; and his novel Dandelion Wine was a firm, straightforward remembrance of a youth in Illinois. His science fiction, however, has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of entering. Ingmar Bergman corresponds with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Spillane...
...SOFT SKIN. With elegant style and economy, French Director François Truffaut diagnoses the love game as played by an aging, suety intellectual (Jean Desailly) who shuttles between his wife and a shapely airline stewardess (Françoise Dorl...
...from tough whore to well-bred ten-year-old. And Nekhlvudov, the hero, trudging the paths of a Siberian village--photographed with the flavor of Italian neo-realism. And many other cinematic "quotes" which are appropriate and effective, not the kind of private joke they seem to be with Truffaut and Godard, for example...
...intelligent direction could have saved the film, Franju was not up to it. With a sophisticated modern audience, problems of subconscious motivations and existential living require subtlety and understatement. Perhaps Truffaut's achievement in Jules and Jim is too much to ask, but when Franju has his lead remark, "Don't you realize how useless we are?" it's embarrassing...