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...Bonheur--A concise, smartly paced little picture in grand color, about a carpenter's ups and downs. Agnes Varda, who directed it, may well be the best woman moviemaker working. At the HARVARD SQUARE...
...explanation of their films, they were introduced to press and public, and put through the excruciating ordeal of the impromptu question-answer period. Well, the press and public don't ask very intelligent questions these days, so the results were limited at best. We learned, for instance, that Agnes Varda, directress of "Le Bonheur" and "Les Creatures," is a very clever woman with a wicked sense of humor, but we hardly learned whether Agnes Varda has anything to say about film-making...
Actually, another major fault of the Fourth New York Film Festival was that the best films shown were those made by the best-known directors: Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Bunuel, Alain Resnais, Adnes Varda. The Festival failed to screen any films of importance by unknown film-makers, and also little that won't be seen again. The box-office power of directors like Resnais and Godard will assure almost all of the Festival's films a theatrical release sooner or later...
...most prestigious U.S. cinema congress. In a way, the pebble ricocheted. Too many of the far-out films shown at this year's festival tried hard to be difficult but just turned out dull. Too many others were bad jobs by good directors (Bunuel, Bresson, Godard, Torre Nilsson, Varda). Though the sponsors had doggedly previewed 400 films, their efforts failed to turn up enough hits to fill out the festival's fortnight...
...BONHEUR. Gentle yet profoundly cynical, this film by French Director Agnes Varda shows that the happiness of man is not necessarily that of woman...