Confidentially Yours
Vivement dimanche !
François Truffaut
While hunting, Claude Massoulier is assassinated. Suspected is Julien Vercel, the manager of a property agency, whose wife Marie-Christine was the victim's mistress. When Marie-Christine in turn is killed, Julien Vercel decides to flee and lead his own investigation with the help of his faithful secretary...
With : Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel, d'après le roman "The Long Saturday Night" de Charles Williams
Image : Nestor Almendros
Decors : Hilton Mc Connico
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Martine Barraqué
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel, d'après le roman "The Long Saturday Night" de Charles Williams
Image : Nestor Almendros
Decors : Hilton Mc Connico
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Martine Barraqué
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, Films A2, Soprofilms
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
" In Confidentially Yours, the detective-story suspense is only a pretext. For Truffaut, the essential element is elsewhere, in the pleasure of telling a story. What is essential is the difficult relationship between Barbara and her boss, the picturesque gallery of secondary characters, the love the actors have – for one actress, the cinematic references. About Bonjour Tristesse, young critic François Truffaut wrote in 1955 "Cinema is a woman's art, or rather that of the actress. The work of a director consists of making pretty women do pretty things." In short, this was a profession of faith, perfectly illustrated in this fanciful drama, an avowed homage to the American detective films" (after G. Lefort).