Confidentially Yours

(Vivement dimanche!)

  • Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
featuring

Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Pierre Kalfon,

François Truffaut’s entertainingly lighthearted final film provides a stylish 1980s French tribute to Hollywood’s golden age of screwball comedies and film noir, with a radiant Fanny Ardant and oft-indignant Jean-Louis Trintignant filling in for stars like Audrey Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. A real-estate agent and his secretary must pause their continual bickering to investigate a series of rapidly multiplying murders before they’re either jailed or killed, all while balancing a parade of prostitutes, film projectionists, clumsy gumshoes, and constant MacGuffins. With tongues firmly in cheek and nods to Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks, Truffaut and team are having a ball, with Nestor Almendros’s black-and-white cinematography providing the perfect noir tone.

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • François Truffaut
  • Suzanne Schiffman
  • Jean Aurel
Based On
  • a novel by Charles Williams

Cinematographer
  • Nestor Almendros
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 110 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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