(La mariée était en noir). In this Truffaut thriller, Jeanne Moreau is the bride whose pleasure is cut down by a nuptial-day assassination. Like a reverse/perverse Snow White, she sets about avenging herself on the five men responsible for her groom's death, entering into their lives to fascinate, terrify, and ultimately dwarf them. “The movie is technically a suspense and horror film—a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. . . . But Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes, not at all Hitchcockian, but a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time” (Renata Adler, New York Times).
Written by Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, based on the novel by William Irish [Cornell Woolrich]. With Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet. (107 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From The Film Desk)
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