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...light lunch there are quiche, meat pasty and goose liver pate on French rolls. The mustard on the ham and cheese and salami and cheese sandwiches comes from Dijon. Onion soup and hot cocoa are the patisserie's only concessions to winter. As in any French, cafe the crockery is so think that whatever beverage or food is hot, coffee or quiche, becomes lukewarm straight away...
...comically. In the first place, Laurent's mother is utterly unable to assume a mother's role: she is beautiful, young, and childlike, a capricious Italian woman who married at 16 and who has never quite learnt the ways of the French. The comfortable amorality of upper-middle-class Dijon in 1954 also serves to lighten the mood of the film. The Chevalier home is a place of hard-working servants, white tablecloths, and wine-filled crystal; original paintings are on the walls, the Tour de France on the radio, and Maurice Chevalier on T.V. Laurent's older brothers amuse...
Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism that vex his schoolmaster-priest (Michel Lonsdale). Father Henri further advances his pupil's education by making tentative homosexual advances during confession, and Laurent's brothers chip in to buy him a bout with a tolerant whore. Laurent-perhaps because of all this frenetic activity-develops a heart...
...operation branched out to other towns on or near the Riviera. They knocked over two Grenoble banks in ten minutes, three Dijon banks in less than two hours. Their amateurism seemed to baffle the police. In making their getaways, the boys shunned fast cars. They would check railroad timetables, buy tickets in advance, drive a stolen car to the station, and board a train. Meanwhile, the police were usually checking automobile traffic on the roads out of town. The trains were not always safe, however, as one of the bandits learned after robbing a bank at Brives. When gendarmes began...
Into the Public Eye. Born in Montreal, Rinfret attended Maine and New York universities, won a Ph.D. in political economics from France's University of Dijon. In 1951, he joined the Manhattan consulting firm of Lionel D. Edie as a $5,750-a-year junior economist, rose to chairman in 1964. He began to move into the public eye after President Johnson, searching for ways to defend his own policies in 1964, quoted one of Rinfret's bullish surveys of industry plans for expansion as evidence that the economy was then turning up. Johnson stumbled over the pronunciation...