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...Take It All seems to be based on the assumption that a very personal movie will be automatically honest, alive and exciting. Instead, Jutra's wordy confessional sounds as though something may have been lost by rendering it into English, and often looks like a smattering of Jean-Luc Godard uneasily combined with the self-absorption of Fellini's 8½ or the glib self-exposure of Arthur Miller's After the Fall. "I wish only to move, surprise, provoke," Jutra has written. "The important thing in life is to have fun. The rest is a hoax...
Band of Outsiders, another backward-looking venture into crime, is a prank by France's prolific Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), a wayward but talented wonder who fills the gap between his more inspired movies by sketching out such trifles as Outsiders. Heroine Anna Karina plays a wistful student who meets two ne'er-do-wells and helps them plan the robbery of her aunt's chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre...
...over two hundred young directors had made their first feature films, and the total number of films shot in France each year had nearly doubled. Many of these films justification ended their director's careers, but several brilliant film-makers also emerged, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, and Jacques Demy. In the space of seven years, an unprecedented number of masterpieces were produced, among them Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin, Godard's Contempt and The Married Woman, and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, all of which will...
...children must be named after Catholic saints. In 1813, the law was liberalized to include names of other "persons known in ancient history," but it has stood unchanged since, and today, though Charles de Gaulle exhorts his countrymen to "marry our century," French offspring may be christened Luc, Cléopâtre or Nabuchodonosor but not Lyndon, Elke or Nasution...
...Plotless," "pretentious," and "pointedly avant garde" are all perfectly accurate epithets for The Married Woman, and I only wish I could find equally concise words of praise. "Pure" comes closest to what I want, but it refers to so much in Jean-Luc Godard's technique and attitude that the one word alone is hardly an adequate rejoinder. Godard's work stands so disconcertingly on the borderline between genius and charlatanism--his detachment and suggestiveness shading imperceptibly into the shallow and ostentatious--that, whatever I say, you may well find The Married Woman and its heroine narcissistic bores...