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The Soft Skin
Directed by
François Truffaut
Not Rated
1964
1h 59m
Drama
,
Romance
7.5
90%
86%
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Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
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Cast of The Soft Skin
Françoise Dorléac
Nicole
Jean Desailly
Pierre Lachenay
Nelly Benedetti
Franca Lachenay
Daniel Ceccaldi
Clément
Laurence Badie
Ingrid
Philippe Dumat
Directeur Cinéma Reims
Paule Emanuele
Odile
Maurice Garrel
Bontemps
Sabine Haudepin
Sabine Lachenay
Dominique Lacarrière
La Secrétaire Dominique
Jean Lanier
Michel
Pierre Risch
Chanoine
Maurice Magalon
Carnero
Lisbon Organizer (uncredited)
Georges de Givray
Le Père de Nicole (uncredited)
Catherine-Isabelle Duport
Jeune Fille Reims (uncredited)
Maximiliènne Harlaut
Mme. Leloix (uncredited)
Charles Lavialle
Veilleur Hôtel Michelet (uncredited)
Gérard Poirot
Franck (Co-pilot) (uncredited)
Olivia Poli
Mme. Bontemps (uncredited)
Thérèse Renouard
Caissière (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Richard
Man in Street (uncredited) / Writer
François Truffaut
Le Pompiste (voice) (uncredited) / Director / Writer / Producer
Brigitte Zhendre-Laforest
Livreuse Linge (uncredited)
António da Cunha Telles
Producer
The Soft Skin Ratings & Reviews
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Sean Axmaker
Francois Truffaut's cool, creamy smooth story of a doomed affair channels the director's love of Hitchcock into a romantic melodrama. It isn't a thriller in any traditional sense of the term but still evokes the master of suspense.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
It's a cold, bitter film about a rather unappealing affair. Yet, it's also strangely humorous in its very realistic depiction of the inescapable traps people often set for themselves.
Los Angeles Free Press
Edward Zatlyn
The film opens with a kind of urgency that never really lets up.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
The drama that is played out on this masterfully set stage comes to very little; I was still expecting it to begin when suddenly it was all over.
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
It's the work of a director operating at the height of his powers, and figuring out where he wanted to take his career after that first flash of inspiration.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Truffaut has directed the film more like a thriller than a melodrama...
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Francois Truffaut's "The Soft Skin" is being revived at the very moment when it seems uncannily prophetic
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Franois Truffaut's fourth feature, The Soft Skin, has never gotten much respect -- even though many people (myself included) regard it as one of his best.
TV Guide
One of Truffaut's least successful, most derivative films.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
A mesmerizing morality play detailing the machinations of adultery and their deadly consequences.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
No cheery triangle, but rather the director's rejection of his own Jules and Jim image as a Pez-dispenser of cushy lyricism
Variety
Variety Staff
Truffaut does show that he can make a solidly carpentered film like anybody else.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Is more witty and poignant than warm and fuzzy.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
simple narrative penetrates the complications arising from adultery with far more discernment than any film I can recall
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
It's a curiously crude and hackneyed drama to come from Mr. Truffaut, but this way of using his actors and working his camera is up to his style.
Denton Record-Chronicle
Boo Allen
Tuffaut handles fairy tale material with his trademark gentle touch.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Not a total success perhaps, but still a striking and sensitive effort.
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Bryant Frazer
Truffaut's fourth feature... is assembled with the kind of wit and impeccable style that are in such shortage today.
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