François Truffaut explores desire as the obscure object in this story of two English sisters who fall in love with the same Frenchman, a position the Jean-Pierre Léaud persona knows well, whether it is post-1968 or, as here, the turn of the twentieth century. Raised as “my monument” by his doting mother, Claude (Léaud) is a bit broken when we meet him, having fallen off a swing. He is mended by an English sculptress in Paris, Anne (Kika Markham), eventually to go to Wales to meet her sister, Muriel, of the “shy, untamed look” (Stacey Tendeter). “One of Truffaut’s most tantalizing romances. . . . Simultaneously introspective and passionate” (Time Out).