The Bride Wore Black Reviews
October 29, 2020
Though second-tier Truffaut, The Bride Wore Black remains an under-appreciated thriller that passes on Moreau's stellar performance and Coutard's roaming camera work.
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| Original Score: 3/5
February 20, 2015
Moreau is mesmerizing as the avenging angel, and the manner in which she interacts with each priggish man offers a fascinating study in a particular brand of male-female dynamics.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
March 11, 2013
Truffaut suggests a nation straining to burst its carapace of moralism. The film's subject and its object converge in the same self-liberating social revolution that would shake the country the following year.
November 6, 2011
With its summery, Mediterranean surface, Jeanne Moreau as the ultimate femme fatale heroine and a knife-twisting tale of murderous revenge and unexpected romance, "The Bride Wore Black" is well worth rediscovering.
March 4, 2011
The Bride Wore Black finds a dark yet entertaining balance between B-movie conventions and (Truffaut's) European film sensibilities.
November 14, 2008
It's an entertaining film even if it doesn't completely work.
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| Original Score: B-
March 13, 2007
It's an enjoyable and entertaining film, albeit probably Truffaut's darkest and least sentimental work.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
March 13, 2007
Miss Moreau remains one of the screen's great actresses, and there is a supporting cast of unusual quality.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
July 6, 2005
Original Score: 4/5
August 10, 2004
Original Score: 3/5
May 24, 2003
It's accessible, intriguing and enjoyable.
May 20, 2003
Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes, not at all Hitchcockian, but a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time.
June 5, 2002
A chilling and tragic portrait of fractured psychology and shattered lives.
Original Score: 3.5/5
January 1, 2000
Basically an exercice de style, and a good one at that.