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Two English Girls (1972) It's wonderful how offhand Fran ois Truffaut's best films feel. There doesn't seem to be any great effort being made; he doesn't push for his effects, but lets them flower naturally from the simplicities of his stories. His film, TWO ENGLISH GIRLS, is very much like that. Because he doesn't strain for an emotional tone ...
Filter by Rating: 7/10. Flawed and tender. rolls_chris 30 December 2009. The actor Jean-Pierre Leaud, the child star of Truffaut's breakthrough '400 Blows' and who plays the protagonist Claude in 'Deux Anglaises et le Continent' symbolises the flawed and tender charm at the heart of this 1971 film. Leaud can't act.
Watch Two English Girls with a subscription on Max. This French film chronicles a decades-long love triangle between Claude (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an art critic, and sisters Ann (Kika Markham) and ...
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- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- François Truffaut
- Drama, Romance
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2003. Vincent Canby New York Times. TOP CRITIC. A film of such beautiful, charming and comic discretion that it isn't until the end that one realizes it ...
Nov 18, 1971 · Two English Girls: Directed by François Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott. At the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris.
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- Drama, Romance
- François Truffaut
- 1971-11-18
May 9, 1994 · The importance of Two English Girls lies in its sheer vitality. The film is an extraordinary cinematic conjuring trick in which Truffaut draws the viewer both physically and visually into his own personal pleasures. He does this on a multitude of levels—if the pastoral scenes salute the work of Jean Renoir, then the washed pastel colors of Nestor Almendros’ Impressionist-influenced ...
What feels at first like an almost light-hearted love story quickly unfolds as a much more nuanced, dramatic take. The staid beginnings of this film unfold into something more adventurous while at the same time examining the effects of... not exactly unrequited love, but certainly removed love, in a way, between a trio of people (a few affairs notwithstanding). What the film depicts is a long ...
