I LOVE all of Truffaut’s other films. This overflows with some beautiful compositions, charming narration (that wes anderson did a good job of stealing stylistically) and delicious musicality. A classic I know….

… but I CANNOT STAND Jeanne Moreau’s character in this movie, she’s really a god awful human being. I saw it once when I was 17 and I thought I just misunderstood some sort of feminist undertone to the film; but when I saw it again recently, I realized that she was just a worthless brat.

EDIT: I thought about it some more and, on second thought, this is an anti-feminist film. This film makes you want to hate women. The war couldn’t keep the two friends apart, but Catherine succeeded in dividing them like she set out to do from almost the beginning, because she was the ultimate object of desire and eternally unattainable because of her juvenile fickleness. An awful portrait of women, but unintentionally a revealing allegory for the stupidity of people in love in an unequal society.