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...GUERRE EST FINIE. The war ended in 1939 for all but a dwindling group of long-memoried men. Director Alain Resnais' evocation of those memories is at times pat and prolonged, but Singer-Actor Yves Montand, as Diego, an old rebel with a past but no future, breathes an air of melancholy strength into the film...
...three hours) ode to autos. Sixteen camera teams shot 1,000,000 feet of film, much of it at last year's Grand Prix races, and Director John Frankenheimer has fashioned a heart-stopping movie slowed down only by the romantic detours of the drivers (James Garner, Yves Montand) and their camp followers (Eva Marie Saint, Francoise Hardy...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar-and just as uncorrodible...
...seems, until Director Alain Resnais warms to his real work: examining the mind and mores of a Spanish Communist refugee who lives in France but plots to undermine Spain's government. Diego, the refugee (Yves Mon-tand), refuses to concede that the Civil War ended in 1939, that for all but a dwindling detachment of long-mem-oried men La Guerre Est Finie - the war is over...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel, Director Resnais is obsessed with the mixture of memory and desire, and his overly literary Guerre at times seems both pat and prolonged. Viewers, however, are not likely to be bored with the performance of actor-singer Yves Montand. With a sour, craggy face fatefully evocative of Bogart and Camus, he exhales an air of melancholy strength that makes Diego seem as abused and battered as an old zinc bar - and just as uncorrodible...