Evening star., 1949-04-17
Easter Offerings
France Provides an Epic Screenplay,
Hollywood Popular One
BY Joy Cormody

The tradition that Easter week should be bit the
special side produced two exhibits of than interest
One OF these great sceenpay that scarcely fail to be
popular The other work that surely will be popular yet
without hope of being classified great
First Of these references Monsieur Vincent"
hn which opened at the Little the other to Little Women
Techncolor version which attraction
Palace
French Film Extraordinary.
Monsieur extraordinary
Although its producer Vscoun de la randere
In the cinema his tradition
well the rating the foreign
picture eloquent testimony that France is back her best
movie FORM dramatic challenge
Of Italian and English pictures would be impossible find
Monsieur Vincent" critically speaking is religious pic
is the life story revolutionary. who looked
his world with passionate dstase and dedicated himself to
This quality figure dramatically
stressed in Monsieur Vincent Throughout the profoundly
ing performance Fesnay the title role pictures
granted sainhood Vincent Paul
narrative always presents him merely This to
that he simply great
Of humanitys major revolutions because
private conflict inside himself.
Heros Life That Of Man
The of Monsieur Vincent" lies the the
process Of becoming Saint the films hero lived He
could angry depressed scornfI
himself a fraiy
times when he seemed wholly passionate than just
holy one This qualities Fesnay
portrait
forgetable ever on screen.
This determination the of the films producers avoid
simple of the central character the eloquent
realism Of the Aim at the Little
Whatever glory the film properly besows him earned
by struggle begins with him being stoned by the
terrified natives of the squad Of chaen who want
nrudng priest their desperate lives ends when he
old Paris still draught with Of job
undone but convinced that he has found the human charity
II the knowledge that only the understand the
q Great Frenchman.
attitude Of the producers of Monsieur Vincenta
Proestants Catholics few frankly avowed
agnosicss that the pictures Frenchman They
present him such time when the inspiration Of such
national They with nicely
pressed passion which like that Of Monsieur Vincent himself
makes its point dramatically
And makes, at the time epocha motion picture
Little Hollywood inprational offering Of the
Alco than in its Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer qualities.
Monsieur Vincent" poverty of the
elements of the Little Women story. 1t is not faced with what
could called commendab frankness Marmee March and her
four inspiring daughters Jo Meg Amy and Beth aude to them
for these hetng snatches Of
dialogue nothing the picture to indicate they really
= Background Glamorous.
with sharp comfort and enough decepvey
chnzes fool movegoer Generally speaking the
girls dressed the fashion the studio thinks worthy Of June
Elizabeth Taylor Margaret OBren not
Miss Alcotts little
Miss Acott created her
with such Arm hand that nothing
them unrecognzably Her little still the ones
generations been taking to their hearts
spirited dramatically into the optomistc
American landscape of their time
Their niche too be eopardized by modern
Techncolor such device boxoe
modern convention which that the stars OF
movies always presented with kind OF
glamour.