Two English Girls

Two English Girls original French title Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, UK Title Anne and Muriel, is a 1971 French romantic drama film directed by Franois Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by HenriPierre Roch. It stars JeanPierre Laud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Truffaut restoredminutes of footage, which fills out the characters, before his death in 1984.

The film begins in Paris around the year 1902 when Claude Roc and his widowed mother are visited by Ann Brown, daughter of an old friend. Ann invites Claude to spend the summer on the coast of Wales with her widowed mother and sister Muriel. While she enjoys Claudes company, her hope is that he may be a husband for her introverted sister. In the event, Claude and Muriel do start to fall in love and Mrs Brown, with the agreement of Madame Roc, says they must live apart for a year.Returning to France, Claude moves in artistic circles and meets many attractive women while Muriel gets increasingly despondent in Wales. Ann leaves home to study art in Paris, where she falls into an affair with Claude, only to leave him for Diurka, a dashing publisher who takes her off to Persia. When Muriel is told of the affair, she collapses into deep depression. Ann falls ill and returns to Wales, dying among her family with Diurka at her side. ........

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