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...Paulo, the National Students Union (UNE), outlawed by the military government, was playing cops-and-mouse with security police. No one had forgotten last summer's mass demonstrations (TIME, July 5). From all over Brazil, 739 student leaders descended on a remote farm in the heart of the artichoke country 40 miles southwest of São Paulo. As Police Commissioner Otávio Camargo later described the scene, "Boys and girls were heaped up in the farmhouse, sleeping in canvas beds or on the floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took...
...brutal or rebellious or vicious or despairing or drugged or headed for extremist adventures. Indifferent? Yes. Nihilistic? No." Events since May seem to have proved Nourissier wrong, but curiously enough, they have in no way invalidated this splendidly instructive book. With affection and impeccable style, Novelist Nourissier (Une Histoire Française) shows his countrymen to be a gifted, cantankerous and immensely vital people, whose only predictable quality is their very unpredictability...
...ubiquitous sunlight links the interiors to the outdoor shots much better than Demy's style is able to do and, as in his Lola and Baie des Anges, shines brightly through the entire film. Demy's style is a strange hybrid. The superb interiors owe much to Godard (Une Femme Est Une Femme, Le Mepris, Pierrot le Fou) and succeed in filling the cinemascope screen with inventive precision; on the other hand, the exteriors are derivative of American films (with shots lifted from Stanley Donen's Singing In The Rain and Nicholas Ray's Party Girl) and don't always...
...voudrais être une saucisse Oscar Mayer...
...tais une saucisse Oscar Mayer...