The SSC French Club Presents

Wednesday, October 24, 5:30pm

Language Resource Center

Meier Hall 204A

La femme était en noir

(The Bride Wore Black)

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, et al. Director: François Truffaut¾ In French with English Subtitles, 1968.  114minutes

François Truffaut's 1968 thriller was an attempt to reconcile the exclusive experience of the Hitchcockian hero with the expansiveness of Jean Renoir's view of flawed humanity. Jeanne Moreau stars as a newlywed whose husband is shot dead on the church steps following their wedding. The story then follows her systematic and relentless efforts to track down the men who were involved in the killing, murdering each one with a creative efficiency that Truffaut does not mean for us to take too seriously. The film's real point is the interesting tension between the audience's growing knowledge about and sympathy toward the guilty fellows, who really are rather ordinary people, and the narrative hook concerning the heroine's reinvention into a figure of insulated emotion and revenge.

http://www.salemstate.edu/french/movienight.htm   ALL WELCOME FREE ADMITTANCE DRINKS AND SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH CLUB, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER SALEMSTATE COLLEGE