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...Bride Wore Black is Truffaut's most calculated film, yet for all its style and detail, I'm not sure it amounts to very much, and prefer the romantic perception of Soft Skin, Truffaut's best film to date. But you have to give him points: the scenes between Julie (Jeanne Moreau) and the artist (Charles Denner) blend exposition and characterization as cinematically as anything this side of Chabrol. Also Truffaut's obsession with Hitchcock has finally left the realm of shot-copying, resulting in some interesting notions about audience identification, point-of-view cutting, and flashback structure...
...even though his movies are full of beautiful images, their ideas tend to ride on the soundtrack. Truffaut's Jules and Jim was adapted from a novel, yet its moments of revelation (the morning scenes at the beach-house, for instance) are visual. When Bergman tries to escape the literary--in The Silence, with almost no dialogue--the result is a crude, sometimes ludicrous reliance on symbols...
...Bride Wore Black--Truffaut's highly symmetrical murder mystery, with quotations from Hitchcock. A splendid, unnerving movie, probably in badly dubbed version. At the SYMPHONY I, 262 Huntington...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays homage to Hitchcock in this sly and sometimes funny thriller about a widow (Jeanne Moreau) who sets out to avenge the murder of her husband...
...festival's fault. Some films were unavailable for screening: Hollywood, as usual, refused to provide any of its major productions; and Jacques Tali's new comedy, Playtime, is on 70-mm. film, too large for Lincoln Center's projectors. Several works by major directors-notably Francois Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Oedipus-were judged unfit...