Two English Girls
1971
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Original title: La peau doucePierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hos...
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Special Features. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. Audio commentary by screenwriter Jean-Louis Richard and François Truffaut scholar Serge Toubiana. New video essay by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones.
- Nicole, Pierre, Franca, Clément
Aug 9, 2017 · A Skin So Soft is an open exploration of the regimented daily lives of these misunderstood monsters. Documentary by Denis Cote, 2017, Canada, 94'Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit...
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Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel. Already subscribed? Sign in. The Soft Skin. Directed by François Truffaut • 1964 • France. Starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti. François Truffaut followed up the international phenomenon JULES AND JIM with this tense tale of infidelity.
- An Old Fashioned Affair
- The Stewardess, The Writer, and His Wife
- Shadows in Darkness and Light
Following an intimate title sequence of lovers’ hands caressing, the film follows Pierre Lanchenay (portrayed by Jean Desailly), a middle-aged, always traveling, wandering-eyed family man who meets the young, beautiful airline stewardess Nicole (Françoise Dorléac). It’s immediately clear through nothing but Pierre’s longing eyes that he has fallen ...
Beyond its acutely composed screenplay, it’s The Soft Skin‘s sensually charged and emotionally compelling performances that really bring the house down. The late Françoise Dorléac (sister of French screen legend Catherine Deneuve) gives a passionately understated performance as Nicole. Her wide eyes and gentle smile give little insight into what sh...
Like his previous three features, Truffaut puts all of his usual New Wave-isms in the spotlight here as the camera bounces, dashes, and glides through the streets and hallways of Lisbon, Paris, and Reims with that sort 0f cinematic giddiness that is bound to put a smile on any admirer of European cinema. Though this time, there’s a twist. Further e...
May 24, 2011 · Truffaut. Jean-Louis Richard. Francois Truffaut's "The Soft Skin" is being revived at the very moment when it seems uncannily prophetic. It tells the story of a wealthy and famous French man, Pierre Lachenay, who has an affair with an airline hostess and foolishly thinks he can keep it a secret from his wife.
“The Soft Skin” transposes the liberating adolescence of the Nouvelle Vague into an aimless adult fumbling for meaning. François Truffaut’s follow-up to his movement-defining “400 Blows” and “Jules and Jim,” “Skin” has a softer touch; its hands aged by groping for truant love, rather than rebelling against a world that refuses to show affection.
