Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since last summer, when a reporter spotted a suspicious equatorial rotundity in French Film Star Brigitte Bardot, have the French papers given her approaching term much less than millennium treatment. For a while, confronted with testy denials of her pregnancy, the papers played the story almost as placidly as they did President Eisenhower's tour and the trouble in Algeria. But by mid-December they could contain themselves no more...
Needle Stab. After the fashion of Pirandello, Author Gelber takes an ax to the footlights, tries to smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than...
Made by Louis Malle. 27, a wealthy young sugar-beetnik from northern France, the film runs through an old-fashioned romantic tale, updated from an 18th century novelette by Dominique Vivant Denon. about a well-to-do young wife (Jeanne Moreau) in a small provincial town. Her publisher husband (Alain Cuny) spends most of his time putting the paper to bed. So the wife visits friends in Paris, drifts into a well-why-not affair with a cafè-society type (José-Luis de Villalonga). Suspicious, the husband invites the lover home one weekend and plays a sneaky, overcivilized...
...Cousins (Films-Around-the-World), another immensely popular picture produced by the New Wave, is a fairly clever, mildly depressing study of France's I-got-it-beat generation. Made for $160,000 by a 27-year-old film critic named Claude Chabrol, the film offers a switch on the story of the city mouse (Jean-Claude Brialy) and the country mouse (Gérard Blain). In this case the city mouse is really a rat. Enrolled in law school, he seldom attends classes, spends his time shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus' modern version of the Orpheus legend, set in Brazil, is one of the most impressive cans of film so far cast up on U.S. shores by the so-called New Wave of French movies...