The Soft Skin 4K 1964

Elegant, intelligent movie with non-trivial dramaturgy, subtle direction and wonderful actors. In short, a charming film that takes us back to a great time for European cinema in the mid-60s, when the most educated and erudite French director named François Truffaut was just over 30 years old.

The French NEW WAVE, which gave the world new aesthetic principles and new names, was at its crest, and the rivalry between young but already famous directors (Godard-Truffaut-Chabrol-Rivette-Romer-Malle-Vadim, etc.), both among themselves and with the Italians, who had long been considered the undisputed European leaders, was very sharp.

And now after 2 groundbreaking paintings ('400 Blows', 1959g. , 'Jules and Jim ', 1961 ; 'Shoot the Piano Player ' and the novel in the painting 'Love at 20 years old ' leave in another list) Truffaut takes on an unexpectedly traditional subject, we can say, the classic love melodrama. It's hard to say what tasks the director set for himself. However, one, not the main, was obvious: to take the lead role of his beloved, 22-year-old talented Françoise Dorleak (almost simultaneously Jacques Demy shoots in 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' younger sibling Françoise, little known then Catherine Deneuve, born Dorleak).

It is wrong to retell the plot, why deprive the inquisitive viewer of the pleasure. I will only note that if Truffaut decided to thoroughly shake out the thoroughly dusty closet of the genre, he succeeded quite well - without any external attractions, only due to the masterfully constructed action and internal character development of the three main characters.

As a result, the owners of 'The Soft Skin', people who do not accept double standards and triple morality, are not the ones we could have pointed out at the beginning of the picture.

For its adequate perception at least a minimum reserve of the viewer's 'The Soft Skin', respect for his own aesthetic experience is necessary for us, the observers of the screen events almost on this occasion the great Irishman D. Joyce caustically remarked: 'There are writers and there are readers. There are very few of both'. That 'skin' which cannot be 'tanned' by mass culture of any intensity even in the performance of all three federal TV channels at the same time.

П. S. A special mention - the expressive material world of the movie, from the streets of Paris lovingly shot in black and white to the interiors of apartments, hotels, restaurants and offices.

Again, this is your movie if you're curious to see with your own eyes how Parisian women dressed and combed their hair in the era when the B. Bardot myth wore off and the total onslaught of Anglophone pop culture began. And as Dorleac dances ! Such is not seen even in the musical 'Girls of Rochefort', 1967, where Dorleac acts for the first and last time together with his sister K. Deneuve. Deneuve. In June of the same, 1967, the hope of French cinema Françoise Dorleac dies in a car accident.