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CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS Directed by Frangois Truffaut Screenplay by Franqois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Aurel...
Confidentially Yours looks at first like Fransis Truffaut's nostalgic tribute to that signature genre of the 1940s, the film noir. It figures, as Bogie might say in one of those murky oldies. After all, it was the French who named the style, and Truffaut is a director with an affectionate regard for the movies' past glories and a flair for paying them homage...
...misplaced. In the old noirs, women were mostly seen as black widow spiders, luring the wimpish male toward his doom. Placing a new, healthy vision of female strength in the old context is a beguiling notion. Not that Truffaut lingers over his cleverness in providing recall with a subtext. Mostly he is concerned with driving his vehicle along at a great pace, so that no one notices the occasional knocks in the engine or the potholes in the plot. With help from his cinematographer, Nestor Almendros, who perfectly captures the sleazy artiness of those long-ago B pictures, Truffaut runs...
...womanizer is a great subject for farce, and a challenging one for tragedy. What he is not is a suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer-Director Blake Edwards, normally a gifted farceur ("10," S.O.B.), turned to a psychologist for help with this screenplay, with predictably shrinking effect on the picture's sense of fun. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews is the doctor who eventually succumbs to Burt Reynolds, essaying the title role. Robbed...
With her pouty face and magnificently sleek body, Isabelle Adjani looks like a Barbie doll grown up and gone bad. At 28, she has become the divine masochist of the French cinema, playing Truffaut's Adele H., or a woman who gives birth to a monster in Possession. This time Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean...