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Gangsters in wonderland: Rene Clement's And Hope To Die as a reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice stories

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From: Literature/Film Quarterly
Date: 19980101
Author:Austin, Guy

Rene Clement's transatlantic thriller And Hope To Die (original title La Course du lievre a travers les champs, 1972) begins in Paris where a young boy, Tony, has come to live. Under the watchful gaze of the Cheshire cat (a poster hanging in a bookshop window), Tony approaches a group of gypsy children, hoping to make new friends. Rejected by them, he climbs a flight of steps and comes across a second gang of children, who seem more friendly. Smiling, he offers them a bag of marbles. But the leader of the gang produces a penknife and slits open the bag. As the marbles, filmed in slow motion, ...

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