Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universal language in this gentle and witty two-part film. The Postmaster tells of the touching relationship between a backwoods postmaster and a ten-year-old girl who is his servant; The Conclusion is a comedy about a reluctant bride, ardent groom and spoiled mother. With minor changes of script, Two Daughters could have been made in rural Louisiana. The Third Lover. Equally understandable is Claude Chabrol's latest film, a chilling story about a self-centered young man whose envy drives him to ruin the happiness of a couple who befriend him. Chabrol, who launched the French...
...Miss Laski's original script, Russians and Americans appear on the scene as mirror-images ("we come as comrades," says one commander, "we come as friends," says the other), but the Russians have been cut in the re-writing. The ensuing anti-American tone is heightened by Brice Weisman's snarling caricature of an American military man. But in general, Thomas Bissinger's production is as sophisticated as Miss Laski's political vision is banal...
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...
...gold-embroidered slum peopled with mystics and mendicants but as an identifiable place where ordinary humans go about their ordinary lives. Two Daughters, a two-part film based on short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, is so filled with the basic stuff of humanity that with minor changes of script it could have been made in rural Louisiana...
John Graham has similar problems as the Trumpeter. His scenes drag rather badly-possibly the fault of the script. Tom Adams is a boyish and pixiesque Mercury, helpfully advising his father on the mores of mortal love...