Since "Jules et Jim", Truffaut made a few movies concerning the 'love triangle' subject. So, this one is familiar on that matter.
With a thin plot and melodramatic dialog and performances, the film goes on too long.
Growing up, I eagerly saw each new Truffaut film when it opened in the United States. This one had the biggest impact on me of all.
Even at the full length that its director intended, this movie strains to convey the complications of story development and motivation that presumably make up the novel on which it is based. The voice-overs (by Truffaut himself) are an attempt to fill in the blanks, but they are rushed and in some cases seem like substitutes for what should have been rendered dramatically.
Puzzling and somewhat pointless drama from Francois Truffaut has a young Frenchman at the turn of the century traveling to Wales to meet with his new girlfriend and her family; once there, he finds himself falling in love with his girlfriend's troubled sister (seems sis is a bit neurotic about her own virginity, wearing it both as a badge of honor and as an angry embarrassment). Dulled-out, inert rumination from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, though many critics gave it raves.
The two English sisters are as different as night and day. Yet they wear similar costumes.
A mildly moving, inoffensive Truffaut movie about a young French bloke (played by Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Léaud, far more remarkable in movies such as Les Quatrecent Coups) who in turn romances two English (or rather, Welsh!) sisters, set during the first decade of the 20th century.
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, the English teenager Ann Brown (Kika Markham) travels from Wales to Paris and befriends the French Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and she invites him to visit her hometown, where she lives with her mother (Sylvia Marriot) and her younger sister Muriel (Stacey Tendeter). When Claude arrives at her home, Ann and Muriel become close friend of Claude, but Ann pushes Claude towards Muriel and they fall in love for each other.
I liked the movie but it was very dumb. It's funny to see and i enjoyed it.
