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...Sense of Loss starts out as a straightforward documentary appraisal of the situation in Northern Ireland. Marcel Ophuls' monumental previous film. The Sorrow and the Pity, (TIME, March 27), brought shape and great emotional resonance to the memories of citizens of Clermont-Ferrand during its occupation by the Germans in World War II. A Sense of Loss shows the same extraordinary compassion for people, the same rare gift for making political history real in immediate human terms. The dilemmas of occupied France emerge more clearly after nearly 30 years than do the problems of a divided Ireland, which still...
...Clermont-Ferrand, a middle-size Auvergnat city not far from Vichy, gradually emerges as Ophuls' microcosm for Occupied France. The film never stops shifting from then to now, with dramatic scenes often commented upon retrospectively by generals and statesmen who took part. But the camera returns again and again to a cast of Clermont-Ferrand residents, presenting their painful, fragmented, cumulative remembrance of things past. Mendès-France was imprisoned in the city before escaping to join De Gaulle. He discusses the convulsions of Anglophobic, anti-Semitic and antidemocratic feeling that after the debacle helped Frenchmen blame everyone...
...either way in a private crisis. One Resistance hero is proudest not of his deeds but of the fact that in the underground he lived for the first time in a classless society. Another remembers that he was pricked toward action because the Germans got all the steak in Clermont-Ferrand restaurants...
Because of Pascal, Francoise Fabian, and a well-structured set of surprises and coincidences. My Night at Maud's was one of last year's freshest films. The film did depend on the premise that isolated beliefs could determine a man's psychology and philosophy, but the incredibly dull Clermont-Ferrand setting. and the background of the characters, added some depth to this view. One is always willing to grant a director his assumptions so long as they are used for pertinent ends, and because Rohmer's people really cared about their situation, and because the actors communicated this, Rohmer...
...Montaigne took a trip through the ravines along the Sioule River near Clermont-Ferand. He stopped his carriage at one point and looked down hundreds of feet at the river and hundreds of feet to the rocks that dominated the horizon. As a Renaissance man, he was horrified. Everything should be built to the measure of man, and les Gorges de la Sioule certainly were not. He would have died if he had seen New York...