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...Madonna Street leaves off, with Comic Carlo Pisacane trying desperately to keep his tapeworm living in the style to which it has become accustomed. Vittorio Gassman and his Madonna Street gang wiggle through some funny scenes. Landru. Another Chabrol picture, this one with a screenplay by Françoise Sagan, whose cynical scenario is based on the French Bluebeard who murdered ten women during World War I in France. Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan are among Landru's victims. Love Is a Ball. The ball is filled with hot air, but Hope Lange and Glenn Ford keep it bouncing...
France's Françoise Sagan is the most famous example: at 18, she coolly chronicled how a girl grows up by driving her prospective stepmother to suicide (Bonjour Tristesse). In Le Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's love affair with her father's mistress. The trend may have reached a climax with The Age of Malaise, a novel about a teenage girl in Rome written by Dacia Maraini, 25. Awarded the $10,000 Formentor publishers' prize for some reason not decipherable in the book itself...
Landru. A highly colored documentary on France's World War I Bluebeard who killed ten women for their money. Françoise Sagan's script drips cynicism, but Claude Chabrol's provocative camera work and the archly stylized acting of the cast (Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michele Morgan) manage to make it worthwhile...
Landru. A colorful (and highly colored) documentary on France's World War I Bluebeard who killed ten women for their money, Landru is the work of New Wave Pioneer Claude Chabrol and Past Mistress of Tristesse Francoise Sagan. Mile. Sagan's script drips cynicism, but Chabrol's provocative camera work and the archly stylized acting of the cast (Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michele Morgan) manage to make it worthwhile...
...cremation, and noxious black smoke puffing from Landru's chimney*hints at similar fates for others. Each smoke signal cues a clip from a World War I newsreel showing doughboys going over the top to their death. Chabrol thus seems to justify his Landru (to whom he and Sagan are lavishly sympathetic throughout the film) by suggesting that killing is killing, whether it happens at Verdun or in Landru's kitchen...