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Though the film is directed by Jean Delannoy, it is generally agreed that the quality is Cocteau's. It is a beautifully composed picture; the photography and lighting is not tricky and weird, as might be expected, but soft and strangely caressing; the music is once again by Georges Auric and is most appropriate, the best than can be said of any film score...
...what do you suppose the expunging process is? I have a theory. Late one night last spring, returning from Radcliffe, I saw a group of people bending over a bonfire in the Cambridge graveyard. They were throwing torn I.B.M. cards into the fire, and making weird sounds, and dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name...
...driver tapped out a signal on the back door and an old lady let me into a room that looked like a set for a Hitchcock murder mystery - complete even to a single, weak, bare light bulb suspended from the ceiling and throwing weird shadows on the cracked walls...
Uncatalogued in the subterranean passages beneath the Abbey is a curious collection of debris: leather-bound ledgers recording 700 years of the Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
...State-sent a successfully elaborate still life of kitchen utensils hanging in midair; it was the happily screwball kind of experiment that professionals, with livings to make, seldom get around to. Philip Ciotti of the Carnegie Institute had explored the thin world between abstraction and reality to produce his weird, orange Newspaper Office (see cut). The result was less photographic than Charles Sheeler's clean-scrubbed in dustrial studies, and more interesting than most out-and-out abstractions...