The Cinephile Film Club of ESG will be screening the French film, “The Bride Wore Black (1968)”, directed by François Truffaut and starring the legendary Jeanne Moreau. The film will be screened on Thursday, i.e 20th July at Maquinez palace, Audi I, ESG at 6:30 pm. Details as given below.
Film: The Bride Wore Black (French with English subtitles, 1968)
Directed by: François Truffaut
Duration: 1hr 46 mins
Long before Quentin Tarantino made Kill Bill, Truffaut directed a film with a very similar storyline (Tarantino said he never saw this film but even some of the scenes are uncanny). The Bride Wore Black itself was a wonderful tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, whom Truffaut admired greatly.
Based on a book by Cornell Woolrich (Hitchcock’s Rear Window was also based on his book) Jeanne Moreau (Ebert called her, “one of the screen’s great actresses,”), plays a woman seeking vendetta. it has a rousing score by Bernand Hermann and the costumes were designed by Pierre Cardin – “In this color film, she wears only black and white; her clothes represent her absolutism – the purity of her motives, the darkness of her deeds”, said Annette Insdorf in her book on Truffaut.
