The Passing Scene: Random Notes

Random Notes

Aime, Je T’Aime, it offers an at- tempt to reconstruct a man’s past in order to determine why he at- tempted suicide. . Prediction: next soulful Soviet film we’ll be called upon to admire will be The People. It’s directed by Grigori Choukhrai, who did Ballad of a Soldier; story is a Defiant Ones type of thing about Russian and Finnish airmen who duel aloft, then are shot down and discover they must join forces to survive. _…. Meanwhile, this from Judith Crist on foreign films: “If it’s all murky, the people soiled around | the edges, then we Americans know it’s true art.”