Le Peau Douce (Truffaut, 1964): Cinema Museum, Kennington 2.30pm
Chicago Reader review:
'The most neglected and underrated of Francois Truffaut's early features--which are still
his best overall--is his fourth, La peau douce (1964). It charts with
tender and quirky precision the fleeting and desperate adulterous affair
between a very successful middle-aged literary critic who's married
(Jean Desailly) and an airline stewardess who isn't (Francoise Dorleac,
in what may be her greatest performance). As Dave Kehr has noted, this
is "the first of Truffaut's features in which his preoccupation with
Hitchcock becomes fully apparent," and the editing of certain stretches
even suggests a thriller; it also has one of the most startling and
melodramatic endings of any Truffaut film.' Jonathan Rosenabum
Here is an extract.
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