Love & Betrayal: Confidentially Yours

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Film: Confidentially Yours aka Finally, Sunday

French Title: Vivement dimanche!

Director:  François Truffaut

Language: French

Genre: Crime/Romance

He stiffly stares through the frosty glass window, where the hot blonde's are passing in their skinny outfits, unaware of the world beyond their vision. He is so lost in the paleness of their beauty that he couldn’t see my eyes famishing him & that I too have a woman inside me. So what if I have copper hair & black eyes and I dress up like a road maniac! I still crave for your love, can’t you see that?

Confidentially Yours  is much of an exposure to the crime passion victims betrayed in love & relationship. Shot in a French atmosphere, the film creates a major anxiety right from the beginning, where Claude Massoulier (Jean-Pierre Kalfon), a mysterious character is shot dead while shooting birds. With all coincidences seasoning for the climax, a set of finger prints of Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent are discovered on Massoulier's car. The confusion begins, when the police accuses Julien for Massoulier’s murder and claims that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, while Julien is left only with dilemmas. The whole mess puts him into a hiding in his own office, where his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant) defends him and leads her private investigations, creating plots one after the other. Julien’s lawyer, Maitre Clement (Philippe Laudenbach) intends to turn in Julien to the police and promises that he can bring him back by justifying his crime for the infidelity of his wife, as per the French laws. While Barbara continues her investigation in her own crummy way to prove that his boss is innocent, she keeps colliding with all the negative characters in the film & surprisingly manages to draw conclusions after each one. The psychotic characters keep bringing goosebumps throughout the film, shifting the suspicion to the next one. Barbara is constantly followed by the police, a suspicious man, an unknown caller & her ex-husband, creating complex situations of mystery & thrill. The film takes an interesting turn while offering ample suspense to the audience along with dark satires playing past our senses, and the love factor actually encapsulates in the story!

The story is based on "The Long Saturday Night" by Charles Williams. The film is classic example of standard American crime movies like the ones by Hitchcock. A complete noir material, this one is shot in classic black and white covering a generic class of brains. The casting is simple & to the point and the camera moves patiently & weirdly throughout the film. The dialogues made a good plaster for the story as the director used good amount of humor to relieve stress & background music kept up with the visuals, steaming out a hot thriller.

About the Director

 

François Truffaut wasn’t much of a good pupil, but was a passionate reader. He bunked school to catch shows, at the age of 7. The real passion made him choose a life, where he constantly pitched in ideas & then there was never looking back. ‘Confidentially Yours’ aka ‘Vivement dimanche!’was his last film released in 1983 after which he was detected with brain tumor and died in 1984.

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