Cinematheque: Two by Truffaut

Jeanne Moreau tracks down and kills the quintet of men who accidentally killed her husband on their wedding day. This thriller with comic elements has been described by Truffaut himself as his homage to Hitchcock, complete with Bernard Hermann score. But as Renata Adler puts it, “Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes not at all Hitchcockian but a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time.” (35mm, 107min, subtitled)