Cinemania

THE BRIDE WORE BLACK
LA MARIÉE ETAIT EN NOIR

• Director: François Truffaut
• FRANCE / 1968 / DCP / Colour / 107´ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard
• Original Work: Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish adıyla)
• Director of Photography: Raoul Coutard
• Editing: Claudine Bouché
• Music: Bernard Herrmann
• Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Londsdale, Claude Rich, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner
• Producer: Marcel Berbert, Oscar Lewenstein
• Production Co.: Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
• World Sales: MK2

The Bride Wore Black, the sixth feature length by François Truffaut, one of the trademark directors of the French New Wave, coincides with a period when the director pulled away from the movement in favor of a new and original style. Conceived as an homage to Hitchcock, the film tells the story of a bride who only wears black or white and is on the hunt for five men who killed her husband on her wedding day. In this offbeat revenge film, Jeanne Moreau, who shot to fame in Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, is all-out mysterious, striking and charismatic. The Bride Wore Black will be screened in commemoration of Moreau, who received the Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.