FRANCOIS VILLON LIVES AGAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 15 (Supplement)

FRANCOIS VILLON LIVES AGAIN

0 \ It By John Barrymore., v The attempt to depict the character of Francois Villon through V the medium of the motion picture, “The Beloved Bogue,” proved (j a rather interesting experiment to those who participated, in it A The aura of the fifteenth century is in itself a little difficult n to understand from our modern point of view, and it proves even \ more elusive in combination -with the strangely contradictory char- \ acter of the great French poet with its admix tmvj of whimsicality, u true 1 nKpirction al genius as revealed in his poetry, and the tragic .. realities of poverty, crime, imprisonment and banishment which X shortened bis life. \ All tha* the film attempts to do is to give a fanciful cross-section V of Vilkm's life and timjes. but that was done with such a delightful (7 spirit of co-operation on the part of the entire company, and with A sny-n a sin cere eCort to do justice to the theme, that we may at > least hope the results will prove acceptable to a friendly public. v