There is of course nothing new under the sun and back in 1954 John Steinbeck was moved to write a sequel of sorts to his pre-war novel Cannery Row. He called it Sweet Thursday and divided it into short 40 chapters one of which was called The Great Roque War and told of a serious rivalry between two teams who played roque, a variant of croquet. Whilst both teams lived in the same town, Pacific Grove, the rivalry was much the same as we get here between two towns with an annual beauty contest replacing the game of roque. Of the two people who have reviewed it here one has either a short memory or else is fairly young because he describes Leconte as a serious filmmaker which is true enough but he did begin his career by directing the Splendid Theatre company in Les Bronzes and Les Bronzes Font du ski and went on to make The Toilet Was Locked From The Inside, comedies all, to say nothing of Tango. Whatever niche he occupies Leconte is an experienced and professional director and although this is no Award winner it is entertaining and well made which is, after all, as much as we should expect from a leisure industry.
Review of Beauties at War
