The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 15

15 THE MONTREAL STAR FRIDAY AUGUST II 1965 ably accurate for villages in Russia and it was startling to bur some quite contemporary twist music used as background at one point There were some good scenes hers and there but by and large it was uninspiring Some Delightful Works CiMMNA Fri 1:30 uni Sat 21:30 ym Q3 TECHNICOLOR BURT LANCASTER in ClMMM SVffBQ LEE REMICK lenabter dewe THE HALLELUJAH RISIRVID HATS ON TlHfillL MLS ky MAIL MWtIm at Hm Hwatr Nwkw ftoctrts Ms IkA Mask MwfM-i (RackteM Sate-varS Dervil Sna'-CKIL RaGle II mm 0 CMMiea IS vn Ateii Tum WaS Tkan I pm NOWMIRI aS Tkan iat STL bing With that one exception it was 90 mlnutrs of unalloyed pleuure Pauing lightly over a short called (France Piotr Kamler) which la swilling exploding colors with a background of mostly electronic sounds aU beautiful but much like dozens of others we come to a Russian film Once There Wu a Lad (Russia Vauill Choukchine) which sums to have set out to prove how dun life in Russia is about a 'truck driver in uarch id hit ideal girl It'a certainly successful in that heaven knows everything looked pretty but the trouble is that the film is dreary too For one thing the young man is a totally forgettable character which may very weU be the whole point of the thing but make him sw fully absorbing to watch fra a couple of hours The countryside is depressing and the whole thing appears to have been shut with a single camera in the most static manner possible Everything seemed rather old-fashioned which is prob CINfRAMA rase ClkikAHA Cl HA tIHI AM AC that seems to trap so many North American film makers when they attempt to make movies about ordinary family life The grownupa were there and they were convincing but the film belonged to the children the animals and the landscape The story began simply with the girl being given a baby ual by a fisherman who had found it in hia nets Once hsving gained the permission of her parents to keep it all her friends rally round to help build it a pen with a pool where ual children and Saint Bernard spend long happy hours But the fisherman is offered money for the ual and decides to sell it the children hide their pet in an abandoned bouu and with some help from understanding adults they keep It well fed and exercised Unalloyed Pleurae Various subplots are added involving a maurauding fox who kills the rabbit and several other complications but the main question is the final fate of the ual It may sound very slight and I sup-pou it ia but foe story is well sustained and so charmingly performed that absorbing right up to the end The only quarrel I have ia that the film sums to be without subtitlu in either French or English at the moment and though not difficult to follow the plot (with occasional voice over translation in Freneh) it would be much more satisfactory with either titles or dub 1 -W Moseley assistant to the president and publisher of The Montreal Stas' right-presents the Montreal Star Award for best 'performance in the Canadian Film Festival to Dona Saunders star of -while Roberto Rossellini well-known Italian film-maker and president of the jury watches Film Festival Closes TODAY AT UNITED THEATRES MEMBERSHIP CARO IN HI COLDIN ACE MOVIE CLUE CAN RS OBTAINED AT AHY UNITED THEATRE I I AS tOr (Ah Conditioned of Lucerne) Llieenie late Tadayi HWa Mans" -May Mar" Taaiarraari TION TO A CUNFICHTIK" with Yul Irymtr fr "SICRIT I Ontremont RAWCtflt laa 1 Ulitk la 2ABXL York Ah Condition! Van HOIUC at Yak Par TIM SaNra harih In Color "Mae ta Tka MMSte" late TaSay Late Bar at Vaa Hama ta Tkt MMSte" "Carry aa Canadian Film Awards GRAND PRIX: FEATURE FILM CATEGORY La Vie Heureuse de Leopold Diractat I Cillai Carla SPECIAL AWARD Sweet Substitute Dirattad if Larry Kami GRAND PRIX: SHORT FILM CATEGORY Phoebe Diractat if Cwl Kaaaaa ter THREE SPECIAL AWARDS Stravinsky Diraetai if Waif Kaaaig a4 Kaaua Kraitar Summer in Mississippi Dinatai hr Baryl Faa BO Cycles Bitaatai if Jaaa-Clauta Lakrtaua MONTREAL STAR AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE Dona Saunders Far t'tla nla ia tale ia dramatically nonsense The reaction to her childishly-innocent disclosure ia normal but her action is not Yet the color ia so exquisite the photographic backgrounds so satisfying and the image of happy family life so beautifully lyrical that dramatic inconsistencies can easily be brushed aside A truly beautiful film to look at After the prizes had been awarded the Hon- Maurice Lamontagne Secretary of State reiterated foe statements he hu made in other speeches about the Federal Government's intention of supporting a Canadian feature-film Industry and Roberto Rossellini the celebrated Italian director who headed foe festival's international jury made a graceful speech that rang with sincerity in which he expressed in very warm terms his interest in the festival and Canadian film-making and his appreciation of foe perception of the festival's audiences throughout the week She gave men a taste of life that made then hunger far more! 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I0JJ 12IS 110 100 71 1 tJI Liit aampteta ifc am all 00 MMDMeMklif iFNqnciuito utns TECMCKN SXD SII SM LAST COMPUTI SHOW IS0 FM 2SH0WSDAILY-215and815Dnl DRAMATICALLY MUSICALLY CINEMATKALLYI JULIE ANDREWS AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER WERE BORN FOR THEIR ROLESI SSm MR0DGERS -4 HAMMERSIEUfS JULIE 'ANDREWS WImw SEVILLE AM CONDiriONfD Zlil St Calk By JOAN IRWIN HE Festival began its last day yesterday with a couple of thoroughly delightful films for children a Hungarian short and a fen length Swedish movie a pity there more youngsters in the audience since both were excellent and should be distributed widely because in spite of Walt Disney there all that many good children's films around The first wu a cartoon and (Hungary) and if it wu rather hackneyed in content as most cartoons are it wu well done amusing light and brief all the things a cartoon should be The color wu soft almost like chalk drawings and the stray of two children who eat pills which make them invisible was carried through with simplicity and verve The major film of the morning was one of the but films seen in many a moon and I hope that it wiU be available for North American distribution "A Girl a Dog and a (Sweden Olle Hellbom) is a completely enchanting story of some children who live in a small fishing community and' their suipmer adventures with an immense Saint Bernard dog a more or leu tame rabbit a young seal and various other assorted animals and people Engrossing From the opening shots of foe sea the rocks the boats and the children to the final momenta it wu engrouing amusing touching and altogether a film of pure delight The color wu soft and true the photography obtrusively effective and the east was excellent without exception The little girl who played the lead wu a joy to watch a marvellously un-selfcooscious child of about nine years not beautiful but overflowing with an irresistible shy charm Her companions especially a mite of a girt who be more man six were equally relaxed and winning without ever being winsome about it The relationships between adults and children were marvellously tender and real without ever falling into the sweetness-and-light honey pit GcEfflEnnmn MS (IN FRENCH) MAR11N MHSOHOFPS raooucnoH 7h I WEEKI AIR CONDITIONED WOEKSi iHOfoWiMiiMhiiahYiwnMMwrofariiiiifiirffliiiffMaBWhiaffaMTHrii 1 iGSffll DANCE PARTY Saturday at 9 pm NoehAfeaB VW RMMVailag Outran ont Cultural Centra HIT Vaa Hama CB a-TSU Ak CaaSNhaaS 8 LE BONHEUR 0lrVI( until Auy 20th ally eleewhera in Montreal) AIR CRNDITIRMKB By SYDNEY JOHNSON sixth annual Montreal International Film Festival came to a close last night at Theatre with the awarding of prizes to the winners in the Canadian part of the festival and with the screening of the final feature film Tale" from Czechoslovakia 1 The International Film Festival is not competitive -but the Canadian entries compete against each other in both the feature and short film' categories The choice of the International jury for beat feature film was Vie Cure use de Leopold directed by Gilles Carle while the prize for best short film went to directed by George Kaczedder Dona Saunders won The Montiial Stab'S award for best actor or actress for her performance in the title role of The Czechoslovak film proved to be a great success It was not only a good film it was the type of film for which non-competitive noncommercial international film festivals like this one were created It la the kind of film that is unlikely to be shown commercially here or that will pass by unheralded and therefore unnoticed by the' general public The film is a very comical satire on the changing fee- tions of the Years war though this only the background setting for a mad farce about a professional soldier of fortune who is reminiscent of Falstaff (ex- cept that he is no coward) a peasant who unwillingly be- cornea a soldier of fortune and a girl who joins them and who travels as their Jester (though she is not however the jester who wrote the tale) The adventures of this trio are funny enough but the film's outstanding appeal lies in the wit and ingenuity with which the progress of foe Thirty Years War is depicted Karel Zeman (who also collaborated with Pavel Juracek on the screenplay) seems to have used every trick of cinema technique to make his points Animated cartoon techniques montages stills trick photography they are all there and they are used with a speed and a comical Invention that leaves the audience howling Yet this seemingly inexhaustible bag of tricks is never used for its own sake' Every invention sdds point to the comedy and most of the points are satirical the satire sometimes being hilariously directed at romantic swashbuckling melodramas that date back to the silent screen This- is a film not to be missed if the chance comes again to see it It will delight both the cinema-technique buffs and the ordinary moviegoer who just likes a good comedy The feature film at the 6:10 performance wu Bod-heur" written and directed by Agnes Varda which won the Prix Louis Delluc at the Cannes Film Festival this year It is a siinply lovely film full of color atmosphere and lyricism but its outstanding quality is purely a eaiM MnAMm UU km IMRHRpi FMHBi Ml Me THI P1CCIRY PLAYHOUM SUMMER THEATRI -NORTH KATIVAU ROAD AIMUST 7 11 II IS AND 1 NIGHTLY AT PAL Arthur Verewfca Productive OF THE ky Daddy Cktyafiky MS Msryiia Cardaar Haary Caaier i aollDfo ieinu Indiana wmQUtmHmBj ratiny jgoeis (IJEffiY LEWIS PiXOOK) ralHniiaiMte st attar fw taw tar forfom as a Ms MNf Wil pNtMME NNrv Ml N-Y Rnt I Child ton 10 yaai dally ti rs and till 215 AIB CONDITHHIIB PARISIEN visual It hu the impact of an art gallery fell of Renoirs Seurats and all the other impressionists who have painted Paris and the countryside1 by the Seine in the sunshine of a perpetual summer But although its story of fsmily life dips into tragedy it seems so far removed from real life that it never touches the emotions Yet the conundrum Mme Varda poses is real enough Can a young man who is happily and contentedly in love with-his wife have the same kind of love with his mistress? Accept this and Mme Varda takes you a step further Can the purity of this adulterous love enrich the young already boundless love for his wife and children and make him even happier with Ms family than he wu before he met his mistress? The young man believes that it can and he ia foolish enough to believe that his wife win understand how this can be so She and Rafter making pusionate love with him zur on a lovely afternoon she slipa quietly away- and drowns herself In the Seine The film then shows how the mistress in time slips into the place in the family and ia accepted a mother by the smaU children Life goes on as before and the young man ia atill full of happiness though Mme Varda shrewdly changes the countryside to' autumn foliage Because these characters despite the convincing acting of foe cast have beauty but no depth this lovely lyrical bawIcM Inis Isas JSt ME NO Cater Sack HuSnu Darla Day THE IMMORTAL EtSENSTBN fab YVES I0 fora (i tH) AM CONMTKMEO MAAAMMMMfo The -Tka WISaN tam Signing TODAY Nlykrty SM amt (11 pah laaday fmai IMS pm just about everything! Brilliant with ita seething Eastern harbors its fierce tribal rituals ita jungle battles violently waged like i fire-works display gone SELECTION 33300 GOD GS7EGD canmEB gdeq of the major moVies of the year! A beautiful film stunningly IndisflMiMsIbTJeSMMUa is fascinating as a daringly romantic and breathtaking hero!" -Ntw Yark Haratd Tribaaa IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Held ever by raquast (Will not ha preM rated RESNAIS LAST WEEK Tka Nam Yerkar EXCEPTIONALLY FINE MOVIE!" RARE FILM YOU SHOULD NOT MISS! Htrali tribaaa SLEEPER FaU ky DON OWEN twins PETER KASTNER JUUE BIGGS A PtTU aw JANES CURT Oroou Mason Jurgens Waimch Hawkins liius tS-cm WlWHTiWMh 8th SNOWDON coo up ar ppppiqipaiiop WEEKI S22S Decade llvd 4IMJ22 NarfA HaMay S41-12TV ISarA raaa ISP-SIIS Baa OWaai PM 4LES 120 ST CATHERINE EAST TEL S2S-I600 A1 RA i at teUkAAte te 4.