I love the films that François Truffaut has seen, but because I haven’t seen all of his films, I try to fill in the gaps from time to time when I saw his 1971 film Two English Women and a Continent. Many, I think, have watched his earlier and, in my opinion, very good film Jules and Jim, which tells about the love of two men for one
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I love the films that François Truffaut has seen, but because I haven’t seen all of his films, I try to fill in the gaps from time to time when I saw his 1971 film Two English Women and a Continent. Many, I think, have watched his earlier and, in my opinion, very good film Jules and Jim, which tells about the love of two men for one woman, based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Rocher. According to his other novel, this film is also shot, telling a kind of mirror story about the love of two women and a man, and the hero writes a novel like “Jules and Jim”, hiding the real story in his life by such a permutation. In the title role - Jean-Pierre Leo, who once began with Truffaut in the film "400 strokes", and later starred in some of his other films, two sisters-English played actresses Kika Markham and Stacey Tendeter. Set in the early 20th century, a young Frenchman, Claude, whom his mother hires an English teacher, Anne, accepts her invitation to stay with them in England. Anne, despite the obvious sympathy between them, wants to introduce him to her sister Muriel, whom she considers better than herself. The three of them manage to make friends, but at some point, thanks largely to the actions of Anne, Claude and Muriel begin to consider themselves in love with each other, and Claude makes her an offer, which, however, does not meet the approval of the mothers of both parties. Then, with the help of their mother’s neighbor Anne and Muriel, the decision is made to give them a year’s delay, during which everything will finally clear up. But life is not so simple and straightforward. At first, the film develops almost in a pastoral spirit, everything is very noble and very leisurely, then the events begin to take on a different character, everything gets confused, although the slowness and restraint of the presentation persists, as the constant involuntary reference to Jules and Jim remains, although the causes of the conflict are different. This treatment of this idea by the author of the novels suggests that such events could have taken place in his own life. I liked the film, and I think people who appreciate Truffaut’s work should watch it.
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