Two English Girls
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
France • 1971
Director
Synopsis
Two English Girls shows François Truffaut working in one of his favorite environments, the work of Henri-Pierre Roche (the author of Jules and Jim), with his longtime leading man/cinematic doppelganger Jean-Pierre Léaud, and telling a story so good on so many levels that he saved the narration for himself. As with many of Truffaut's best works (of which this is one, though it is often underrated), the story, of the romantic triangle between the two title characters and Léaud's Claude, is so beautifully delineated that the tale becomes almost secondary to its telling.
Synopsis
Two English Girls shows François Truffaut working in one of his favorite environments, the work of Henri-Pierre Roche (the author of Jules and Jim), with his longtime leading man/cinematic doppelganger Jean-Pierre Léaud, and telling a story so good on so many levels that he saved the narration for himself. As with many of Truffaut's best works (of which this is one, though it is often underrated), the story, of the romantic triangle between the two title characters and Léaud's Claude, is so beautifully delineated that the tale becomes almost secondary to its telling.
Credits
Crew
DirectorFrançois Truffaut
WriterFrançois Truffaut, Jean Gruault
CinematographerNéstor Almendros
ComposerGeorges Delerue
EditorMartine Barraqué, Yann Dedet
Cast
Jean-Pierre Léaudas Claude Roc
Kika Markhamas Ann Brown
Stacey Tendeteras Muriel Brown
Sylvia Marriottas Mrs. Brown