Two English Girls (Les deux anglaises et le continent)
by Francois Truffaut
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Actor: David Markham, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Philippe Léotard, Sylvia MarriottDirector: Francois Truffaut
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Two English Girls (Les deux anglaises et le continent)
Movie Review: Truffaut's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Truffaut made lots of great movies, and lots of mediocre ones. "Two English Girls" stands out, I think, as his best. Like "Jules and Jim," this film involves a love triangle, only instead of two men and woman, as the title suggests, this triangle is made up of two women (sisters) and a man named Claude (Jean-Pierre Leaud).
Initially, during an extended stay at the girls home in England, Claude falls in love with Muriel (Stacey Tendeter), but after a period of separation, he decides to "play the field." When Muriel's sister Anne (Kika Markham) moves to Paris, Claude begins a relationship with her, only to find that she can play the field too. Eventually, Claude and Muriel come together for one night, and the experience rekindles Claude's love. But it is not to be. I won't spoil the films ending, but will say that it leaves only the most unsentimental viewers without tears in their eyes.
The films sole flaw is a short part in which Muriel confesses to masturbation in a letter. This detracts from what is otherwise a supremely sensitive and touching film.
Summary of Two English Girls (Les deux anglaises et le continent)
François Truffaut's adept handling of language and art, sex and caprice, is in full flower in Two English Girls, an adaptation of the Henri-Pierre Roché novel. Claude (Truffaut favorite Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a Frenchman persuaded by Ann (Kika Markham) to come to England to meet her sister, Muriel (Stacey Tendeter). Claude falls for both sisters, vacillating between the two with a kind of Brontë indecisivenes, but he ends up asking for Muriel's hand. Complications arise, forcing all three of them to separate ends but with many reunions along the way. Truffaut said he wanted to "make not a film on physical love, but a physical film on love." He teases and taunts, making pastoral scenes erotic and erotic scenes pastoral and never loses momentum or weight with the story. Largely dismissed or ignored after its release in 1971, the film has wisely been reassessed to take its place as one of Truffaut's finest. It also includes a magnificent score by Georges Delerue (who appears briefly in the film) and stands as possibly one of the last cautionary cause-and-effect tales of the evils of masturbation and poor eyesight. --Keith SimantonSimilar DVD Movies
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