DECEMBER NIGHT
(Discina-Paris) ‘THE moral that might be drawn from December Night is that not everything the French do is good-which is hardly, you might say, a discovery. I wouldn’t have liked not to see this film if only because of a very good performance by Pierre Blanchar-remember him in Pastoral Symphony?-as a concert pianist who loses the woman he loves and years later falls in love with his young protégé’s sweetheart, who resembles her. As a matter of fact, these other parts are quite well filled, too, by less-known French players. There’s some | good acting, then, and even some very good sequences; but the whole is somehow marred by lapses that seemed to me almost novelettish.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 23
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117DECEMBER NIGHT New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 23
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