The Bride Wore Black
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Movie Reviews of The Bride Wore Black
Movie Review: Completely Successful Truffaut Film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of Truffaut's very best films. Truffaut has been dead for awhile now but for several decades, ending in the 1980s, he was probably the most popular French director for American moviegoers newly discovering French film. One thing that made him so accessible to Americans was that he started out as a movie reviewer and also wrote a definitive book on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Truffaut understood what we Americans were drawn to at the movies but could also make it a new experience for us by making it French. This movie is an homage to Hitchcock's work yet also distinctly Truffaut's movie. The marvelous Jeanne Moreau plays the lead, a woman hell bent on revenging her husband's murder. She systematically goes after and murders each man who was in any way involved in gunning her husband down on their wedding day. She of course has to get rather close to each man in question to pull this off and she is wonderfully inventive in her methods. Perhaps her best "sendoff" is saved for last though. Be ready for a great night at the movies with this one as it holds up to the very best of Hitchcock's work.Movie Review: Deadly Woman from the 1960s
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVED this film. My heart jumped so many times I was shocked. The last 2 minutes are astounding. I had no idea how much Quentin Tarantino was influenced by foreign films as well as the usual roadhouse B-movie flicks he rants about. This is brazen, sexy, obsessed, intense vicious cold-blooded killing; period. And it's done by a petite little woman who knows exactly what she wants and how to manipulate men into ASKING FOR IT. Oh Boy, do they get it!!!!!!
I just can't believe modern film makers (women especially) don't refer to this film more when talking about Kick-Ass Deadly Women.
Movie Review: Fabulous Bride!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is excellent. As a Truffaud fan this is marvelous with the various methods that she devises to get revenge on those who killed her husband within minutes of getting married. The only question is how did she find out the names of the five men.
This movie is in the same class as Keeping Mum, with the methods of madness as murders "happen" and take place quietly.
Movie Review: An entertaining murder melodrama!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dedicated to Hitchcock, whom Truffaut admired so much, it tells us the sordid revenge of a suddenly when leaving behind the church minutes ago, his husband is shot by three men. He will assume the role of Fair Agent even she has to be in jail in order to come to the last act.
Jeanne Moreau as always was magnificent and the rest of the cast too.
Movie Review: mad (?) woman on a mission
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an intriguing film. There are a lot of odd choices in it that make it distinctive. It's in lush color, uniformly brightly lit. The fashions are dramatic, and for Moreau, mostly variations on black or white. Which is fitting, as she's an avenging angel, acting on a moral imperative.
Though, to her victims, she's a femme fatale, the film interestingly does not demonize her. As the story unfolds, we learn her reasoning, and she is insanely dedicated to efficiently targeting her victims. She doesn't allow for innocents to get caught in the crossfire.
Perhaps most interesting of all is Moreau's performance; she rarely smiles, in fact underplays every scene. So we're left with the beautiful enigmatic presence of a woman acting as she must, by her own moral reckoning, alienated from the rules and constraints of society. One minute of confession finally lets us in to the pain under her stony visage; yet even that is intercut with flashbacks and underlined by Hermann's expressive score.
Truffaut's Hitchcock homage works on several levels, not least of which is each of the varied guises the bride wears to snare her foes. She makes herself into their perfect object before killing them, and they make it all to easy for her. And yet each encounter is distinct, a portrait of the character of the man who wronged her as much as of Julie herself.
Most unusual of all, perhaps due to the Hitchcock influence, is how old-fashioned the movie is. The narrative is so direct, so visual and so well-plotted, there's none of the verite' or hand-held moves that were making other films look natural and experimental at the time. The look is more 1960 or 1964 than 1968; it must have looked old-fashioned even at the time. And yet Moreau's Julie, in costume after costume, is an indelible vision.
There are few extras on the DVD, just scene selections and the theatrical trailer, which is a kitschy treat.