Underplayed Gems

Two English Girls (1971)

Two English Girls poster
Original title
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
Directed by
François Truffaut
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
France
Runtime
2h
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 163 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young Frenchman in the early 1900s becomes entangled with two English sisters. He falls in love with one of them, but their relationship is complicated by family expectations and the other sister's feelings.

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What happens

Two English Girls (French: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent; UK title: Anne and Muriel), is a 1971 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Truffaut restored 20 minutes of footage, which fills out the characters, before his death in 1984. The novel was first published in English in 2004, translated by Walter Bruno and published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Cambridge, Wisconsin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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