François Truffaut
Bernardette Lafont, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand, Claude Brasseur, André Dussolier/ Bernadette Lafont, Gérard Blain
116 mins
France
15
French
Digital
Part of the The Renoir Truffaut Season
Une Belle fille comme moi (1972) - 98m
Truffaut at his most atypical with a broad black comedy about a young woman (Lafont, gleefully raucous) rising from rural rags to richly ironic celebrity by means of murder, deceit and ruthless, repeated seduction. The movie revels in bad taste, yet Camille’s progress towards prison and beyond recalls Renoir’s Boudu… in exposing the hypocrisy, corruption, vanity and gullibility of the men she encounters en route.
Les Mistons (1957) - 18m
Shot in and around Nîmes, this cast locals as the adolescents spying on the sister of one of their number when she takes up with a sports teacher (Blain). Both critical of and almost nostalgic for the unconsidered cruelties of youth, it’s perceptive, funny and melancholy, often simultaneously. Nouvelle vague icon Lafont – then Blain’s wife – made her screen debut as the object of the boys’ curiosity.
- Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large, BFI Southbank
Please note: the screening on Wed 19 Jan at 8.40pm will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).
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