TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio(s): 16:9
Layers: single-sided/single-layered

Credits:

Jeanne Moreau,Michel Bouquet,Jean-Claude Brialy,Charles Denner,Claude Rich,Francois Truffaut,Cornell Woolrich,Bernard Herrmann

Description:

Master filmmaker François Truffaut creates an exquisite suspense of "love and death". First domestic Blu-ray release! Nominated for the 1969 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film! A woman who loses the love of her life at a wedding takes revenge on one man after another. Truffaut, who longed to "make a love film without love scenes," took on the challenge of making a film in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, whom he adored! Based on the classic masterpiece by Cornell Woolrich, a master of suspense. Starring Jeanne Moreau of "Suddenly on Fire". In a refreshing change from the flamboyant beauty of "Suddenly on Fire," she gives a cool performance as a cool-headed beauty who seduces and kills men one after another in her quest for vengeance. The music is by Bernard Herman, a master of film music known for Hitchcock's films such as "Vertigo" and "Psycho" and "Taxi Driver. The cinematography is by Raoul Coutard, a master of the French New Wave who has worked on numerous Godard and Truffaut films. The stylish, fluid, and beautiful cinematography creates a superb suspense film that will keep your attention until the very end.The film was described as "a marriage of the Nouvelle Vague and Hollywood traditions" and was nominated for a 1969 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also a box office success.