The Bride Wore Black (1968)

Original title

La mariée était en noir

Directed by

François Truffaut

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film, mystery film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 286 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow tracks down and confronts the five men who caused her husband's death on their wedding day. She methodically enacts revenge while dressed in white and black.

tensestylishsuspensefulmelancholiccoldmethodicalnoir-ishdeliberate

What happens

The Bride Wore Black (French: La mariée était en noir, lit. 'The Bride Was in Black') is a 1968 psychological thriller film directed by François Truffaut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Louis Richard, based on the 1940 novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich. It stars Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger and Alexandra Stewart. Truffaut, a Hitchcock admirer, enlisted Bernard Herrmann to score the film. The film's costumes were designed by Pierre Cardin. The plot follows a widow who seeks revenge on the five men who killed her husband on their wedding day. Throughout the film, she wears only white, black or a combination of the two. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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