La peau douce (1964)
(Silken Skin)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 118m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti
Synopsis:
An established publisher and literary critic meets an air hostess on a business trip and begins an extra-marital affair. Though careful and considerate to both parties, he ultimately finds life's mischances get the better of him.
Review:
Truffaut's fourth film is a familiar story of a bourgeois family cruelly torn apart by vanity, and one which in its violent conclusion recalls the work of his contemporary Chabrol. The treatment, however, though at times reminiscent of the latter (Desailly's Lachenay in particular is a typical Chabrol character), is pure Truffaut, with its lighter touches, melancholy lyricism and Hitchcockian reminiscences (the scene in which he is bored by the incessant chatter of an old friend while intent on watching the progress of Nicole across the street, who is then accosted by a pervert, recalls scenes from Blackmail and Rear Window, for example). The debacle of the couple's marriage shows particular psychological insight, and the mise en scène in sequences such as at the hotel is elegance itself.
(Silken Skin)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 118m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti
Synopsis:
An established publisher and literary critic meets an air hostess on a business trip and begins an extra-marital affair. Though careful and considerate to both parties, he ultimately finds life's mischances get the better of him.
Review:
Truffaut's fourth film is a familiar story of a bourgeois family cruelly torn apart by vanity, and one which in its violent conclusion recalls the work of his contemporary Chabrol. The treatment, however, though at times reminiscent of the latter (Desailly's Lachenay in particular is a typical Chabrol character), is pure Truffaut, with its lighter touches, melancholy lyricism and Hitchcockian reminiscences (the scene in which he is bored by the incessant chatter of an old friend while intent on watching the progress of Nicole across the street, who is then accosted by a pervert, recalls scenes from Blackmail and Rear Window, for example). The debacle of the couple's marriage shows particular psychological insight, and the mise en scène in sequences such as at the hotel is elegance itself.
(Silken Skin)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 118m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti
Synopsis:
An established publisher and literary critic meets an air hostess on a business trip and begins an extra-marital affair. Though careful and considerate to both parties, he ultimately finds life's mischances get the better of him.
Review:
Truffaut's fourth film is a familiar story of a bourgeois family cruelly torn apart by vanity, and one which in its violent conclusion recalls the work of his contemporary Chabrol. The treatment, however, though at times reminiscent of the latter (Desailly's Lachenay in particular is a typical Chabrol character), is pure Truffaut, with its lighter touches, melancholy lyricism and Hitchcockian reminiscences (the scene in which he is bored by the incessant chatter of an old friend while intent on watching the progress of Nicole across the street, who is then accosted by a pervert, recalls scenes from Blackmail and Rear Window, for example). The debacle of the couple's marriage shows particular psychological insight, and the mise en scène in sequences such as at the hotel is elegance itself.