Truffaut’s overlooked sophomore feature, a playful crime-noir, is shot with a rare, improvisational style, about a bit-part piano player who unexpectedly gets embroiled with lowly if persistent gangsters.
A married man finds out that his ex-lover and her husband have moved into a neighbouring house in Truffaut’s penultimate feature about the inevitability of extramarital affairs—it covers familiar thematic ground but the director’s sure-handed grip on the narrative gives it illicit thrills.
Truffaut and Leaud continue another chapter in the life of ‘Antoine Doinel’ in this charming take on youthful romance and misadventure that toggles between pseudo-screwball comedy and detective drama.
Truffaut’s terrific last film is as Hitchcockian as it gets, with a top performance by Fanny Ardant who plays a sleuthing secretary after her boss becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders.
Eternality Tan 