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THURSDAY, JULY 21st | 21:30
Gardens of the French School at Athens | 6 Didotou str., Athens

Director: François Truffaut
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Caroline Sihol, Philippe Laudenbach
Runtime: 90’
Year of Production: 1983

In his last work, before his premature death at the age of 52, François Truffaut adapts the novel by American Charles Williams (“The Long Saturday Night”) to a small town of the French south - an ideal occasion for the creator of Nouvelle Vague in order to pay tribute to his beloved American cinema, from film noir to Alfred Hitchcock.

When a real estate broker is accused of the murders of his wife and her lover, the lot falls on his secretary, who is secretly in love with him, to investigate the crimes and prove his innocence. Despite the atmospheric black and white photography and the archetypal script trigger, however, Truffaut achieves much more than an homage of adoration or a wink to familiar cinema genres. Irresistibly attractive and unfairly neglected by many as one of the director’s most light, commercial films, “Confidentially Yours” keeps intact the suspense that a self-respecting thriller requires, grafting it with a dark sense of humor and genuine romance, while at the same time it sardonically overturns the roles of classic noir, offering Jean-Louis Trintignant the chance to highlight his fragile side and to his muse, Fanny Ardant, one of the best roles in her career. Thanasis Patsavos

 

In collaboration with the Plein-Air Festival by the French Institute of Greece



    Publication date: 2022-06-14 12:13:02

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