The bride wore black

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title The bride wore black
Original title La Mariée était en noir
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1968
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director François Truffaut
script François Truffaut
Jean-Louis Richard
production Marcel Berbert
Oscar Lewenstein
music Bernard Herrmann
camera Raoul Coutard
cut Claudine Bouché
occupation
synchronization

The bride wore black (original title: La mariée était en noir ) is a movie by the director François Truffaut . It is based on the crime novel The Bride Wore Black (original title: The Bride Wore Black ) by Cornell Woolrich .

action

A womanizer, Monsieur Bliss, is preparing for his engagement party, which will take place that evening. A mysterious woman tries to get into his room. In the evening she shows up at his engagement and asks him to talk to him on the balcony. She uses a trick to get him to climb onto the railing. She pushes him into the depths while she reveals her name to him: her name is Julie Kohler.

A little later we see her again chasing after a man who doesn't seem to know her. This time it's shy Monsieur Coral. She sends him concert tickets and meets him in a box, but without introducing herself. He invites her to his home for the next day. She appears at the invitation with a bottle of poisoned liquor. Coral is also killed by her. As he dies, she explains to him that they met years ago, and now Coral recognizes her dying as "the bride".

Flashback: A newly wed couple steps in front of the church. Suddenly a shot is fired and the groom collapses dead.

Another change of scene: Again "the bride" is collecting information about a man. Your new destination is Clément Morane. She sneaks into her victim's house with a trick, and it turns out that Morane is an ambitious politician. With another trick she lures him into a narrow chamber, where she locks him up. She explains to him that her name is Julie Kohler and that she has come to kill him.

Another flashback: five bachelors who are bored in a small town are playing cards and drinking. With a hunting rifle equipped with a telescopic sight, they aim at the top of the church tower and the clock of the church opposite. One of them aims at a newlywed couple who are just stepping out of the portal. When the others try to snatch the gun from him, a shot goes off and fatally hits the groom. Frightened by this terrible outcome, they storm separately from the apartment and leave the city.

Back in the present: Julie Kohler seals the chamber airtight with adhesive tape. Morane suffocates in it.

When Julie tries to shoot another man in his junkyard, the police stop her and arrest him. Your fourth victim is a painter. He hires Julie as a model for a picture of the goddess Diana. She lets him draw and paint her and kills him with an arrow.

Julie stands out as a deeply veiled woman who joins the funeral procession at the painter's funeral. She is recognized by a friend of the first person killed and is arrested. She confesses the deeds to the examining magistrate, but does not name her motive. In the prison, where men and women are housed in different parts of the building, she works in the kitchen and distributes food. She hides a knife and stabs the fifth, the man from the junkyard.

criticism

film-dienst : François Truffaut processes traditional motifs from the melodrama and the Hitchcock thriller into a fascinating story about love, revenge, guilt and death. The playful, at the same time formally strictly calculated handling of different genre elements enables surprising, sometimes amusing, always exciting variations of the “ amour fou ” theme, which under the criminalistic surface of the film forms the engine of the plot.

The film, which today has an 80% positive review on Rotten Tomatoes , was hostile to French critics at the time. Truffaut later said he didn't like the movie either and that its critics were right.

influence

The film inspired the Indian film Nagin (1976). The film was an inspiration for Kate Bush's song "The Wedding List" on her album Never for Ever .

Although the film Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino has a very similar action - here the names will also be deleted from a list and a bride takes revenge on the murderers of her groom - he claimed the film The Bride Wore Black had never seen before.

Awards

It was in 1969 for the film awards Golden Globe ( Foreign Language Best Picture ) and Edgar Award nominated. The jury of the National Board of Review film prize put him on a list of the best foreign language films in 1969.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Julie Kohler Jeanne Moreau Rosemarie Fendel
Coral Michel bouquet Gerd Martienzen
Corey Jean-Claude Brialy Joachim Ansorge
Bliss Claude Rich Randolf Kronberg
Rene Morane Michael Lonsdale Edgar Ott
Mlle Becker Alexandra Stewart Renate Danz
Judge Gilles Quéant Jürgen Thormann

literature

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ The bride wore black. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/bride_wore_black/During the 1983 Chicago International Film Festival
  3. ↑ http://www.rediff.com/movies/2001/aug/02us.htm
  4. ↑ Irwin, Colin. "Paranoia and Passion of the Kate Inside" , Melody Maker , October 10, 1980. Accessed: 12 November 2011.
  5. ↑ Tomohiro Machiyama, Interview with Quentin Tarantino ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Eiga Hi-Ho (Movie Treasures), August 28, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.japattack.com
  6. ↑ The bride wore black. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 6, 2020 .