A Julie Kohler viene impedito il suicidio dalla madre. Lascia la città. Rintraccerà, affascinerà e ucciderà cinque uomini che non la conoscono. Qual è il suo obiettivo? Qual è il suo scopo?A Julie Kohler viene impedito il suicidio dalla madre. Lascia la città. Rintraccerà, affascinerà e ucciderà cinque uomini che non la conoscono. Qual è il suo obiettivo? Qual è il suo scopo?A Julie Kohler viene impedito il suicidio dalla madre. Lascia la città. Rintraccerà, affascinerà e ucciderà cinque uomini che non la conoscono. Qual è il suo obiettivo? Qual è il suo scopo?
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 5 candidature totali
- Rene Morane
- (as Michel Lonsdale)
- Le juge d'instruction
- (as Gilles Queant)
- Le policier
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Recensioni in evidenza
"La Mariée Était en Noir" is a simple but excellent thriller. The geniality of François Truffault develops the tragedy of the lead character Julie Kohler with only few flashbacks. Jeanne Moreau is amazing, in the role of a woman that sees her world falling apart with the stupid murder of her beloved husband, and is driven by revenge to stay alive. The conclusion with the camera focusing the security guard is fantastic. The famous "cross of legs" of Catherine Tramell in "Basic Instinct" was probably inspired in the shy one of Julie Kohler in the police department. "The Bride" of "Kill Bill" is also inspired in this classic French movie. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "A Noiva Estava de Preto" ("The Bride Was In Black")
Note: on 06 December 2010, I saw this film again on DVD.
Jeanne Moreau is always outstanding!
It just doesn't work. The stories Hitchcock used were developed from simple, seemingly random everyday encounters, the kinds of mishaps or minor aberrations that might touch any of us. Such an approach here might have made the picture more worthy of serious appraisal.
We see the murder of the husband repeatedly throughout the picture, studied from different angles and vantage points. He is assassinated on the steps of the church, while the thunderous 'wedding suite' plays rather ominously. We find out why she picks her victims the way she does and how they all relate to the slaying. This is one ticked off woman. Some of the murders echoed Hitch, one inspired by FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, another from NOTORIOUS. The scenes and "borrowing" that occur here are not as blatant as you may think, however. They are mostly inspirations and Truffaut puts his own spin on them, meshing them together or taking them apart and reassembling the elements. If you are a Hitch connoisseur, it is fun to interpret what Truffaut is doing with the master's vast material.
I was also struck by a feeling of NORTH BY NORTHWEST, but with a woman as the main protagonist and the journey turned inside out. Of course, we get the character who has seen this person before and either leads to her capture or is on to her, a staple in Hitch flix. The ultimate homage is Bernard Herrmann's score (he was Hitch's right hand man for years). The 'wedding suite' is louder than usual, resonating evil, and the music as a whole is Herrmann's typical gothic work, brilliant and memorable. Truffaut extends Hitchcock by showing us in more graphic detail some of the killings and the relentless mission this woman is on is not stylized the least bit.
Check out the poisoning scene and tell me you don't see Ingrid Bergman looking at Claude Raines circling and bellowing in expressionistic ways. Trains are littered throughout the film, one on the lampshade of a young boy, another with Moreau riding on it. This is all great, but it transcends some of Hitch's work in many ways. The blood-curdling ending is one of the best I have ever seen in film, period. Considering BRIDE WORE BLACK was released in 1968, the horrific ending may have inspired HITCH of all people when he made FRENZY in 1972. Watch both and see if you know what I mean. This is a must see for foreign film fans as well.
RATING: 8 1/2 of 10
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThis film is François Truffaut's homage to Alfred Hitchcock, made shortly after Truffaut had published a book of extensive interviews with Hitchcock. As part of his homage, Truffaut chose a novel written by Cornell Woolrich, on whose story Hitchcock's La finestra sul cortile (1954) was based, and even chose long-time Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann to compose the score.
- BlooperWhen Coral shows his ticket at the theater, he is told that the performance had started three minutes ago, and is immediately shown to his box. When he gets inside the theater, the performers are in the middle of the second movement of the piece (Ludwig van Beethoven's Cello Sonata #3), implying that they had been playing for at least 10 minutes.
- Citazioni
Coral: Permit me to make an impossible wish?
Julie Kohler: Why impossible?
Coral: Because I'm a rather pessimist.
Julie Kohler: I've heard it said: "There are no optimists or pessimists. There are only happy idiots or unhappy ones".
Coral: [smiling] Yes, well. I'm an unhappy idiot then.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Introduction to Truffaut Season (1972)
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- Data di uscita
- Paesi di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- La novia vestía de negro
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Eglise Saint-Lambert de Vaugirard, Paris 15, Parigi, Francia(wedding church)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 747.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 45.075 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 11.206 USD
- 25 apr 1999
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 45.263 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 47 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.66 : 1