Confidentially Yours
Vivement dimanche !
François Truffaut
Julien Vercel, the head of a real estate agency, is accused of the double murder of his hunting partner, Massoulier, and his wife, Marie-Christine Vercel. He refuses to turn himself in as he wants to do his own investigation and prove his innocence. Barbara, Julien's high-spirited secretary, convinces him to go into hiding and decides to elucidate these mysterious murders herself.
With : Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Caroline Sihol, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Xavier Saint-Macary, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean Aurel, d'après le roman "The Long Saturday Night" de Charles Williams
Image : Nestor Almendros
Sound : Pierre Gamet
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
Sound : Pierre Gamet
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Martine Barraqué
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, Films A2, SoproFilms
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
François Truffaut wanted to shoot a film noir around Fanny Ardant. "I revisited the theme of the marital thriller, where there are no gangsters and the police are just somewhere in the background, and where an inventive woman spins intrigue from beginning to end. (...) This film mixes two genres: the rainy night film genre with that crime novel atmosphere and American comedy; and I don't think we've seen a lot of that before." (F. Truffaut) "Shoot the Piano Player and Confidentially Yours, both shot at periods of time when the filmmaker was riding high and seemingly "untouchable", put everything back in the balance and reestablished the filmmaker's connection with his former work as a critic, reminding the viewer that right up to the end François Truffaut's only consideration was directing, that is where all that is noble about cinema is to be found and no where else. Truffaut's final lesson was to hold the banner of genre films high." (François Guérif)