Silken Skin (Truffaut, 1964): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 5.20pm
This Francois Truffaut film is part of the director's season is also being screened on Ferbruary 6th and 26th at BFI Southbank (full details here).
Time Out review:
Those
whose knowledge of French nouvelle vague linchpin François Truffaut
begins with ‘The 400 Blows’ and ends with ‘Jules and Jim’ should seek
out this steely 1964 study in the cruel mechanics of illicit love. Like
one of Eric Rohmer’s ‘Moral Tales’ recast as a smouldering thriller, the
film is marked by an intense, unromantic rigour absent in the
director’s early work. It traces paunchy, middle-aged publisher and
lecturer Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly)
as he heedlessly ditches his loving wife and child so he can romp
around the countryside with a coquettish air hostess (Françoise
Dorléac). It’s conservative, as Truffaut views Pierre’s actions as
immoral. But it’s more concerned with the logistics of love, asking
whether the time and energy one must exhaust for a little something on
the side is worth it.
David Jenkins
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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