Film Studies: The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce) 12A
Like its British equivalent, the French New Wave had washed ashore by 1964 and the movement’s key filmmakers now sought to tackle fresh challenges. Truffaut’s fourth feature deserves to be better known: a sympathetic exploration of the extra-marital affair between a middle-aged publisher (Jean Desailly) and a much younger air hostess (Françoise Dorléac). More classical in style than the films that had made the director’s name, it is nonetheless a worthy successor to The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim.
Screening as part of Film Studies: Sixty Years
Ago, presented in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University. The film will
be preceded by a short introduction from Sheldon Hall.
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- Director
- Francois Truffaut
- Year
- 1964
- Duration
- 1 hour 53 minutes
- Language
- French with English Subtitles
- Cast
- Françoise Dorléac, Jean De Sailly , Nelly Benedetti
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