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100 1 0 _ade Baecque, Antoine
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245 0 0 _aThe killer widow
260 _c2018.
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520 _aBy studying the conditions in which François Truffaut’s film, The Bride Wore Black, was conceived, written, produced, and shot, we aimed to shed light on the multifaceted expressions of widowhood among the film’s auteur, the writer of the adapted text (William Irish), and the film’s lead actress, Jeanne Moreau. Irish was a perpetual widower with a fetishistic taste for black; Truffaut was desperately seeking ways to get beyond the loss of passions both in the flesh and on the screen; and Moreau portrayed widowhood through her black and white outfits designed by Pierre Cardin, grieving over the brutal death of her fictional husband who was shot dead on the steps of the church immediately after their wedding, and helping every one of her characters/future victims to die. As Truffaut admits in a letter to Hitchcock: “The widow is a virgin”: a paradox that lies at the core of the film and all its interpretations.
690 _adeath
690 _aFrançois Truffaut (film director)
690 _aliterary adaptation
690 _awidow
690 _acinema
690 _aThe bride wore black (movie)
690 _arevenge
690 _aWilliam Irish (novelist)
690 _aJeanne Moreau (actress)
690 _amourning
786 0 _nSociétés & Représentations | o 46 | 2 | 2018-11-07 | p. 47-54 | 1262-2966
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-societes-et-representations-2018-2-page-47?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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