The last film by French director François Truffaut. In this film, the Frenchman pays tribute to the black-and-white films of Alfred Hitchcock (Truffaut's film is also made in black-and-white aesthetics), built on a simple and uncomplicated plot - an ordinary man caught in serious life circumstances. Of course, inspired from the outside by the enemy.
If Hitchcock's spies and saboteurs, Truffaut's is much more prosaic. The era is a little different. As in the maestro, here a huge role is played by a woman who helps a man to get out of trouble. Fanny Ardant, who starred in Truffaut's last two films and even managed to become known as the muse of the late Truffaut, is as great as ever. Not bad and Jean-Louis Trintignant, but his role is less significant, because in the picture the ball is ruled by a woman. Hitchcock is very fond of women, especially blondes, devoting them whole movies.
Truffaut, as a true Frenchman also does not stay aside, giving such a wonderful ommage, or even more accurately something like a guide to the early work of the Englishman. Well, and just a good movie.