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May 24, 2011 · 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.
While flying to Lisbon, Portugal, to give a lecture, a writer and magazine editor, Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly), encounters an attractive flight attendant, Nicole (Françoise Dorléac), and ...
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Mar 8, 2011 · Barely released in the U.S. upon its initial completion in 1964, Francois Truffaut’s masterfully engaging “The Soft Skin” was the New Wave director’s first effort to tackle mature ...
The Soft Skin Reviews. Francois Truffaut’s cool, creamy smooth story of a doomed affair channels the director’s love of Hitchcock into a romantic melodrama. It isn’t a thriller in any ...
Mar 5, 2011 · Distrust of entrenched institutions like religion, politics, and marriage are core themes of the French New Wave, and this emotional anxiety permeates throughout François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin, a mesmerizing morality play detailing the machinations of adultery and their deadly consequences.
Mar 29, 2015 · The Soft Skin brilliantly shows the effects of moral compromise, conflicting desires and incompatible priorities on everyone involved – the wife, the mistress and, most bluntly, the self-serving husband whose sense of entitlement steered them all into this totally avoidable but all too common mess.
Mar 9, 2015 · The Soft Skin. by Keith Phipps. Released on the heels of three masterpieces in 1964— The 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, and Jules And Jim — The Soft Skin has long been an also-ran in François Truffaut’s early filmography. Barely distributed in the U.S., it received a scathing review from The New York Times ’ Bosley Crowther ...
