THE BRIDE WORE BLACK is always referred to as Truffaut's most 'Hitchockian' film, an intentional homage to his idol about whom he had recently published a landmark interview book. Julie steals a butcher knife from the kitchen and completes her plan by stabbing Delvaux to death. She's sent to prison, where she helps the matrons serve food to the other inmates, one of whom turns out to be Delvaux.

She then allows herself to be caught and admits to the murders, but won't divulge Poses as a model for a book about 'Diana the Huntress' which Fergus is illustrating, and over the course of a few days, Fergus falls in love with her, but she kills him using the bow and arrow she's been posing with. The fifth and final victim is a womanizing artist named Fergus (Charles Denner). As Julie is about to shoot him, however, he's arrested by the police for dealing in stolen goods.

Julie leaves him there to suffocate, then moves on to find Delvaux (Daniel Boulanger), a crooked used car dealer. When she reveals who she is, he explains that the shooting of her husband was accidental, the result of a long night of drinkingĪnd card playing which ended when the men, who were fooling around with a rifle, pointed it out the window of their room, which was across the street from the church. Posing as his son's teacher, Julie insinuates herself into Morane's house and locks him in a cupboard. Next on her list is pompous politician Morane (Michel Lonsdale). Was an accident and pleads with Julie to call a doctor, but she refuses. As he's dying, she tells him that she did it because he was among the group of five men who were responsible for the shooting death of her husband on the steps of the church on her wedding day. Next, she seduces a lonelyīachelor named Coral (Michel Bouquet), and kills him by injecting poison into his wine. She tracks down a playboy named Bliss (Claude Rich), crashes his engagement party and lures him out onto a balcony, then pushes him to his death. Jeanne Moreau gives an elegantly cool performance as a widow bent on vengeance in THE BRIDE WORE BLACK, Francois Truffaut's suspenseful and atypically heartless adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's even more heartless novel.Īfter being restrained from committing suicide, Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) sets off on a mysterious quest to find five men.

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