The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black French La Marie tait en noir is a 1968 French film directed by Franois Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich. It stars Jeanne Moreau, Charles Denner, Alexandra Stewart, Michel Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Rich and JeanClaude Brialy.

As the film opens, Julie Kohler Jeanne Moreau tries to throw herself out of an upstairs window, but is stopped by her mother Luce Fabiole. Julie is dressed in black and is obviously griefstricken. In the next scene, she is more composed, telling her mother she is going on a long trip, and counting out five piles of money. She gets onto a train, but right afterwards steps down on the opposite side, hidden from onlookers.The next time Julie is seen, her hair is different, she is wearing white, and looking for a man called Bliss Claude Rich. He is a ladies man who is having a party on the eve of his wedding. When Julie arrives, aloof but attractive, he cannot resist approaching her. When they are alone on the balcony of Blisss highrise apartment, she tells him her name and pushes him off the balcony. ........

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