Abstract

Films

The article presents information about several motion pictures. The French film "Sous Ia Lune du Maroc" is, first of all, a rather charming travelogue of Fez and other spots in North Africa. It is also a rambling, poorly accented melodrama about five Europeans suffering under a trumped-up sorcerer's curse in the same region. Between the setting and the melodrama, however, there is no inevitable connection; the excellent photography is not integrated with the narrative. Another film "Woman's World," at the Acme on Fourteenth Street, is somewhat below the level of recent films from the Soviet Republic. The difficulty here again is not that the picture is pure melodrama or melodrama based on propagandist values which one may or may not accept, but that it is for an American audience, unsuccessful melodrama.