Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bride Wore Black would appear a step in the wrong direction, Truffaut having subtitled it unofficially his "hommage a Hitchcock," the film directly after publications of the huge Le Cinema Selon Hitchcock now on everybody's coffee table. But the film pleasantly reveals Truffaut as having learnt more and imitating less. Only the music (by Bernard Herrman, composer of Vertigo and five other Hitchcocks), and a few shots (for example, the early close-up of the suitcase, from Marnie) recall specific Hitchcock films, and Truffaut provides instead a carefully crafted film molded around stylistic devices Truffaut reveres as a result...
...seen by the protagonist. When the audience and the characters share a single eye, audiences naturally begin to identify with the person through whose eyes they see; Hitchcock often undermines our complacency by forcing us to identify with a peeping tom (Rear Window) or murderer (Psycho). Halfway into The Bride Wore Black, the camera begins to follow a young mother and her son walking home from school; although we do not see Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) following them, the boy's glances directly into the camera lens make us realize Julie's presence as that of the camera...
...Rear Window is more mature for his journey into depravity, as is Marnie after experiencing for a second time the trauma of her youth. Truffaut is too intelligent to afford dramatic consummation only to Julie's desire for revenge, and some indirect therapy does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that at least three of Julie's victims die more realized human beings, better for having known her. On one extreme the first victim sees Julie and briefly questions the nature of his expedient marriage plans; most seriously, the painter (brilliantly played by Charles Denner) falls deeply...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers...
Twiggy engaged? True enough. Britain's bean sprout of a lass and her hairdresser-turned-manager, Justin de Villeneuve, 28, announced they will be married. But not right off, chums. "Twiggy and I will marry when she's 21," announced her steady companion, while the bride-to-be, looking older than her 18 years in a micro-toga, waggled her side curls in agreement. "I don't believe in marrying young," said the Twig. And there's another little thing, continued Justin: Twiggy says she wants a ring bigger than Liz Taylor's 33.19-carat...