Webster Film Series Blog

The Bride Wore Black

François Truffaut's, 1968, France, 107 min.
Weekend, February 3, 4 & 5 at 7:30 pm

Francois Truffaut’s dark thriller is based on a novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adopted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Moreau tracks down all five culprits, sexually enslaves them, and then engineers their deaths. The ominous musical score was written by the great Bernard Herrmann, another frequent Hitchcock collaborator. In French with English subtites