Show I j i r 4 I II II I r d y I F FI I y rab ru 3 V w J rP 57 x J. J STAR IN STORY OF YOUTH Two young leading actors Gerard Philips and Michelins Preale star in Devil in the Flesh a dynamic story of adolescence Fine Story of Adolescent Love Told in Devil in the Flesh HOLL HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Devil Devil il in the Flesh is a story of adolescent love Adapted from t the e Raymond novel no Le Diable au Corps which achieved posthumous posthumous posthumous fame when its author died at the age of 20 this French film I Ihas has been hailed as perhaps the finest most mature motion picture from postwar France Its admission admission admission ad ad- mission for exhibition by American American American Ameri Ameri- I can censors has been pronounced by critics as a triumph for freedom freedom freedom free free- dom of artistic expression Reviewers have ha been enthusiastic tic about the film because of its honest adaptation of ofa a tremendously tremendously honest story written by a abo aboy aboy bo boy about his own first love affa af af- fa fair fl Caught up in an adventure I that might well have wrecked the life of a man twice as old Radi Radi- spares no details in depicting the madness cruelty and infatuation infatuation tion lion of himself and his sweetheart Profoundly moving because it itIs itis itis is profoundly honest the picture had to be unerringly directed and acted Fortunately its director I Claude Autant Lars and its producer producer producer pro pro- ducer Paul Graetz as well as its two young oung leading leading- actors Gerard Philipe and Micheline Michelins Preale avoid the pitfalls of sentimentality overacting overacting overacting over over- acting or that would have wrecked the film i The story abounds in those deft I touches of characterization that go to make a great work of art I Dramatic realism characterizes the I use of the camera English subI subtitles subtitles sub sub- I t titles by Elliot Paul arc are as true to life as if a stenographic report I had had been made of the actual conI conversations conversations con con- of characters involved I in the film |