from the silly opening attempt at suicide, to the predictable march from one victim to another, this film has to rank as one of the worst French films, and one of Truffaut's worst.
and that doesn't include the awful music, despite being written by one of the greatest film composers of all time: Bernard Herrmann. I am disappointed most with the music.
It feels as though the music was basically inserted into holes where it did not fit, nor made sense. Herrmann was borrowing from his previous scores so heavily, the music began to sound like Herrmann doing a parody of himself.
there are so many problems with the script and editing, as well as the acting, that one doesn't know where to begin.
Truffaut couldn't even pull off the fake thunder storm at the third victim's house. The lightning and thunder were so phony and contrived as to make the whole film a cartoon.
Then at the re-telling of the tragedy that was to become Julie Kohler's (Jeanne Moreau) motivation for her revenge, we see a sloppy, nonsensical explanation of one the five men clumsily aiming a gun at the victim, and it accidentally going off.
pathetic.
This film was a travesty.
and that doesn't include the awful music, despite being written by one of the greatest film composers of all time: Bernard Herrmann. I am disappointed most with the music.
It feels as though the music was basically inserted into holes where it did not fit, nor made sense. Herrmann was borrowing from his previous scores so heavily, the music began to sound like Herrmann doing a parody of himself.
there are so many problems with the script and editing, as well as the acting, that one doesn't know where to begin.
Truffaut couldn't even pull off the fake thunder storm at the third victim's house. The lightning and thunder were so phony and contrived as to make the whole film a cartoon.
Then at the re-telling of the tragedy that was to become Julie Kohler's (Jeanne Moreau) motivation for her revenge, we see a sloppy, nonsensical explanation of one the five men clumsily aiming a gun at the victim, and it accidentally going off.
pathetic.
This film was a travesty.