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The Soft Skin
The Eternal Triangle At Its Most Eternal
The Eternal Triangle At Its Most Eternal
Drama, Romance - 1964
7.5
89%
78
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
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An American Werewolf in Paris
(1997)
An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
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The Edge
(1997)
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert,...
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Stepmom
(1998)
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have...
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Sliding Doors
(1998)
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
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Forever Young
(1992)
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
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The 400 Blows
(1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even m...
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Jules and Jim
(1962)
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that ...
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Fahrenheit 451
(1966)
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
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Day for Night
(1973)
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Shoot the Piano Player
(1960)
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangster...

Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
119 min
Release date:
20 Apr 1964
Country:
FR
Languages:
English, Portuguese, French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
It's a curiously crude and hackneyed drama to come from Mr. Truffaut, but this way of using his actors and working his camera is up to his style.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
[A] steely 1964 study in the cruel mechanics of illicit love.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Truffaut does show that he can make a solidly carpentered film like anybody else.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Francois Truffaut's fourth feature, The Soft Skin, has never gotten much respect -- even though many people (myself included) regard it as one of his best.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
8 Mar 2011
fresh:
Francois Truffaut's "The Soft Skin" is being revived at the very moment when it seems uncannily prophetic
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
26 May 2011
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