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PRESIDENT Reneé Coty's black Renault drives up the Champs-Elyseées between lightly foliaged plane trees to the Arc de Triomphe. The crowd, thinly hugging the barriers, applauds mildly. The Republic is still worth a handclap, and 76-year-old President Coty, typifying today's worried "ordinary Frenchman," is worth several...
...perversities of real life, will not automatically lead to a great work of art. The hero and heroine of Roofs are not like the cardboard creatures of American comedies, or the fantastical inventions of the British. This is a testament to the laudably acute eye of director Rene Clair, but it does not make their adventures universally entertaining...
Last Lift. Last December a Brain whose specialty was explorers tripped over three successive questions. Sample: Who was the first explorer to reach Timbuktu and live? Answer: Rene Caillie. The Brain's Brawn, an amateur champion weight lifter, did well the first two times around, pleaded for time out before attempting to lift 275 Ibs. from a snatch position and 330 Ibs. "clean and jerk." For fully five minutes, viewers watched Brawn parade in front of the camera, flexing muscle and steeling nerve. Finally, to the relief of several hundred thousand Frenchmen, he raised his weights sufficiently high; Brain...
Gates of Paris (Filmsonor; Lopert). Rene Clair is a moralist who never moralizes. In this picture, for instance, his moral is a weighty one. Evil is not evil, Clair says, if it does good; in real life the absolutes are relative. Yet the point is made lightly, and it hits home with benevolent accuracy...
...Patrolling the Algerian side of the Tunisian border early one morning, Captain Rene Allard and 43 men of France's 23rd Infantry Regiment came under heavy mortar fire. Before long, 15 Frenchmen lay dead. The rebels, Allard later reported, had launched their attack from nearby Tunisia, were accompanied by vehicles of theTunisian National Guard. When French reinforcements arrived, the Algerians fled back into Tunisia, carrying with them four French prisoners...