The Bride Wore Black
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Movie Reviews of The Bride Wore Black
Movie Review: Good but it's no Hitchcock
Summary: 4 Stars
I have seen a number of Truffaut films and, while I was very impressed with "Day for Night", I generally found his movies to be a bit over-rated. I certainly found his book of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock to be a marvelous insight to Hitchcock and his films. As I understand it, "The Bride wore Black" came out the following year and is a tribute by Truffaut to Hitchcock. It is a good movie; it is not Hitchcock, but it is a good movie. It centers on a woman who is out to kill the five men who were responsible for killing her husband just moments after their marriage.
As the movie unfolds, we gradually get more and more about the what, where, when and why for these murders. This is a nice touch because the mystery we encounter deals with the present as well as the past. The "bride" is a hard person to figure out. She plays an emotional-less role very well but we know that something deep within is really motivating her. I realized that it was the death of her husband but even that didn't explain the depth of her compusion. I was thinking about this after I watched the movie and then I recalled a minor little scene in the film that suddenly illuminated everything. It was a visual recollection of her relationship with her brief spouse. In the recollection they were bosom buddies since they were 5 or 6 years old. This wasn't just a tentative "I Do" relationship, this really was a one in a million, life-long before it even began, true love relationship. In the briefest of scenes was the key to understanding everything. It may not have been classic Hitchcock but it was the best of Truffaut. The rest of the film falls together nicely and wraps up in a most delightful many (as I suspect Hitchcock might say). No, this is not Hitchcock but it IS a good Truffaut movie.
Movie Review: Truffault and Moreau: Who Could Ask for Anything More
Summary: 4 Stars
Truffault brilliantly brought to the screen Cornell Woolrich's outstandingly paranoiac thriller, The Bride Wore Black. And who but Moreau could have played the role of the relentless avenger who finds so many inventive modes to destroy those who killed her husband. On the church steps! I like Truffault's ending better than the novel's contrived ironic one. The novel, though fine, lacks the melancholic and weirdly comic quality of the film. It is a film that puts one in the uncomfortable position of rooting for its murderous heroine though one of her muders is especially distressing to both her and us because the victim is endearing. But see for yourself.Movie Review: The Bride Wore Black (1968) - Francois Truffaut
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bride Wore Black is yet another average film by the always irregular French director Francois Truffaut. Truffaut is such a talented director that it's a shame he never quite found his place before his untimely death. Barrowing elements from Hitchcock, and mixing it with some oddly placed comedy, The Bride Wore Black is a mishmash of cruelty and farse that never comes together to form anything coherent. Visually the film is good, and the music is nice and fitting, but none of these elements saves the ridiculous story from veering off in too many different directions. The Bride Wore Black is ultimately a film that doesn't know what it wants to be, just as Truffaut never quite found what type of films he wanted to make.Movie Review: Mediocre Script Predictable with no Suspense
Summary: 2 Stars
Which "Hitchcock" inspired this? Some of Alfred's camera work, perhaps, the sort that has become a cliche in serial killer flicks. This script, however, has far less subtlety than "Seven" and few surprises. Moreau is always appealing in some way, but she is so businesslike in this role that the apparent fascination that her victims show for her is not credible even as comic parody of predatory men. Two of the revenge killings had promising storylines. One of these worked well. In the second she was an artist's model in a character that parodied the men, but the parody wasn't highlighted, the episode missed opportunities for added interest and thus seemed too long for nothing. Same for the film.Movie Review: He did to Hitchcock what the Germans did to Poland in WW2
Summary: 2 Stars
I was expecting at least a glimpse of the substance present in the Hitchcock movies. After all, the movie is supposed to be a homage to the creator of Psycho, Vertigo and Rear Window. Instead, all we got is some style and a plot with less suspense than the average scooby-doo episode. It has a lot in common with B-movies such as the Theatre of Blood (1973 - Vincent Price), where all you get to expect is a series of killings. If watching a mad and average looking woman for two hours, who will stop at nothing to get her "revenge" (even using a 5-year old so she can turn him into an orphan) excites you, than this movie is for you.