Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landru. A colorful (and highly colored) documentary on France's World War I Bluebeard who killed ten women for their money, Landru is the work of New Wave Pioneer Claude Chabrol and Past Mistress of Tristesse Francoise Sagan. Mile. Sagan's script drips cynicism, but Chabrol's provocative camera work and the archly stylized acting of the cast (Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michele Morgan) manage to make it worthwhile...
...name of all that is reasonable, what makes the Secretary of Agriculture believe that, if controls are lifted from wheat, farmers will promptly plant so much wheat that the country will be swimming under a wave of shifting tides of golden grain...
...bitterness, promised to abide by the majority decision. "I am willing," he told Erhard, "to pass along to you all I know ... in the interests of the German people." Then he abruptly stood up, slowly and impassively walked through the crowd to his waiting car, and with a weary wave of farewell, drove home...
Trouble was over for the moment. But worried Franco aides know that dozens of important wage contracts in many industries are up for renewal during the coming weeks. Unless pay boosts are granted promptly, Spain is almost certainly in for a serious nationwide wave of strikes this summer...
Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...