Les Deux anglaises et le continent
François Truffaut
Paris, the turn of the century. Claude, a rather lazy, wealthy young man becomes friend with Anne Brown, his mother's English friend's oldest daughter. During a stay at Anne's in Wales, Claude meets Muriel, Anne's younger sister whom she spoke of fondly. Mrs. Brown, becoming aware of the blossoming attraction between Muriel and Claude, sends him to stay with a neighbour. Claude's mother comes to England to talk about marriage...
With : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Marie Mansart, Philippe Léotard
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, d'après le roman d'Henri-Pierre Roché
Image : Nestor Almendros
Sound : René Levert
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Yann Dedet
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, d'après le roman d'Henri-Pierre Roché
Image : Nestor Almendros
Sound : René Levert
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Yann Dedet
Production : Production Les Films du Carrosse, Cinétel
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
As lyrical and cold as it is puritan and crude, Anne and Muriel is Truffaut's second film based on a Henri-Pierre Roché novel, revisiting the theme of the love triangle. The script, written by the team Truffaut-Grualt, was one of the most arduous to construct and write. "The great distance in time and space that gives the narrative in Jules and Jim its restrained, calm aspect, doesn't exist in Anne and Muriel where love is displayed in a feverish, heart-breaking style right in front of our eyes. (...) Those who don't like movies that talk about love shouldn't go see Anne and Muriel. There's not an image or a phrase that doesn't refer back to it. The characters experience intense feelings and talk about them in detail, with each other, endlessly, until they become sick from love. That's what separates Jules and Jim, a hymn to life, from this film, which is all about pain." (F. Truffaut)