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...great modern directors of the cinema, Antonioni and Resnais, collaborate on their first film, declaring that it will "try to capture the langorous, subtle rhythyms of the vita vrai." While viewing it a student declares that "if someone isn't killed within thirty minutes I'm getting out of here." No one is, he does...
Messieur: Un vrai bijou! Vous avez aborde un sujet fort difficile avec une main de maitre. Mes plus sinceres felicitations. PAUL DUCHASTEL Quebec...
...story from the hands of fate and throws it into the lap of chance. It moves the locale from the Left Bank of the Seine to the wrong side of the Rhone, where an impassioned Lyonnaise beauty (Simone Signoret), bored with an inadequate husband, meets "un homme, un vrai" in the form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed...
...least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects...
...tongue. Other chewers of twigs are natives of French African colonies. Trays of such twigs were displayed to visitors to the International Colonial & Overseas exposition at Vincennes marked: LE VRAI DENTIFRICE COLONIAL...