Vivement dimanche! (1983)

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   Siskoid

   Confidentially Yours (in reality, Vivement Dimanche!, which would translate as "Can't Wait for Sunday!") was Truffaut's last film, and it's a fun anachronistic film noir that looks like it was made decades earlier. Certainly, Truffaut's interest in Hitchcock shows through, especially in the humor, but this is closer to the great American noirs in that the plot gets more and more complicated until it hardly matters anymore. The well-dependable Jean-Louis Trintignant is a realtor framed for a double murder, and the striking Fanny Ardent is his sassy secretary who for some reason helps him try to uncover the true murderer before the police close in. Unlike your normal noir, there's a postmodern tinge to it, as the leads muse about being in a detective novel, and of course, they totally are. What they stumble upon would be highly ridiculous if they weren't. The cinematography's cool, the reversals are fun, and while it feels like a bit of a lark for Truffaut, it's still a very entertaining lark. It's sad to imagine how many more films he had in him, but life had other ideas; he died the next year, age 52. 3 years 2 months ago
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   nicolaskrizan

   Jerky, raw, cheesy, embarrassing, sloppy, parodical, coincidental – and adorable! Too uneven for the book, but still a delightful little anachronism.
   
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