Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sullen and distant in his illness, loves him with a half-maternal fierceness. Madeleine struggles towards his rehabilitation so that they may marry and "lead a moral life together." But Pierre secretly befriends Cybele, a twelve-year-old girl who has been abandoned by her parents to a local convent. Pretending to be her father, Pierre takes her out to the woods each Sunday, and the pair embark on a beautiful (but perhaps dangerous) fantasy romance...
...skillful editing, he offers a perpetual shifting of perspective. Not only at the end should we suspend any predilection toward valuative judgement. Throughout the film we must experience the world in terms other than our own. In one scene (when we follow Pierre's desperate race to the convent) it bounces madly by us in the rear-view mirror of a truck. In a restaurant party, a babbling couple are grotesquely distorted through the stem of Pierre's champagne glass...
Through the Gates. Irene meanwhile had decided to handle things her way. After about a week in hiding at a Catalonian convent, said a friend, Irene "overcame her difficulties of mind" and would soon announce a "happy family happening." As Bernhard flew off again to bring her home, the princess popped up at the house of her invisible suitor. He turned out to be Prince Carlos de Borbon y Parma, 33, whose family has its own remote claim to the Spanish throne. Paris-born Carlos is an athletic, brainy, offbeat grandee who studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne (economics, science...
...tried to clear a path so the Pope could walk in prayer along the shabby, bazaar-littered Via Dolorosa, venerated as the street along which Jesus carried his cross to Calvary. The Pope twice stopped to meditate briefly at a station of the Cross and once slipped inside a convent for 25 minutes of rest and prayer, while outside, his security guards attempted to control the screaming, pushing mob. As they hurried the Pope toward the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, his Vatican plainclothes bodyguards openly cursed the crowd. But not Paul: an island of serenity in an ocean...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). First public presentation in the U.S. of Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun," taped at her convent at Fichermont, Belgium...