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...they were painted, and the sea off Normandy sparkles as freshly. In his canvases, crinolined ladies titter and talk on a fully dressed visit to the beach as he first viewed them with his fresh, unassuming eye. A lone clammer trudges to his early morning task while the grey sky pushes its bleakness into the sands. Boudin pursued all the moods of the sea-except mist, for that would have inhibited his view...
...rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...
...elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...
...That horrible old lady!" she gasps as she staggers toward the nearest exit. The guards charge into the ladies room prepared to corner a criminal, but all they find is a grey wig and a rubber mask and their own foolish faces in the lavatory mirror...
Tension is set up most intensely in the sadic electricity that crackles between the principals. Pleasence plays the husband as the abject dog beneath the good grey skin of a middle-aged respectable who has made his pile and lost his nerve, as a whipped cur whining, wriggling, licking, leaking, crawling on its belly in pathetic need to please. Dorléac plays the wife as a bitch-kitty who doesn't know she is alive unless she is sinking her claws into some poor hound. Slander, in the funniest and most sinister performance of his long screen career...