Two English Girls
- Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude Roc
- Kika Markham as Ann Brown
- Stacey Tendeter as Muriel Brown
- Sylvia Marriott as Mrs. Brown
- Marie Mansart as Madame Roc
Two girls from Wales and the love to the continent ( Original title: Les Deux anglaises et le continent ) is a film by François Truffaut from 1971 Truffaut directed the film, as well as Jules and Jim, from a novel by Henri -Pierre Roché. . Lead actor Jean -Pierre Léaud is also the Antoine Doinel from the eponymous film series Truffaut.
Action
In 1900, meets the Frenchman Claude in Paris, the young Welsh Anne Brown. She invites him to her home one to Wales. There, Claude fell in love with Anne's sister Muriel. The mothers are against the connection; the lovers have to part with for a year. Claude soon enters into other compounds. Anne visited Claude in Paris and became his lover. The paths of the lovers separate. Anne died of tuberculosis. Claude sees Muriel again, but after a night of love, they split up again. Muriel marries another, Claude remains alone.
Background
Truffaut said of his film: " There are times in love a real power of the feelings that I wanted to film. I do not mean just the hugs that I have tried to objectively and raw to film, without music, but also the confession, the confessions, the separations that have the consequence that people have to vomit or faint. To put it in one sentence: I have not tried to make a film about physical love but a physical film about love ".
Reviews
The filmdienst ruled: " Aesthetically carefully composed and psychologically complex film that portrays the diversity of feelings and causes can be felt, which makes these people incapable of a lasting relationship. A discourse on the impossibility of absolute love, which is an equally tempting and destructive utopia. "
The time was announced on February 9, 1973: " Very cool and concentrated demonstrates the director in his own estimation, probably the most serious film ' the distance between the two stories, the difference between romantic fiction and bitter biography. It is a very beautiful, very sad film about the fragility of emotions about the slow death of a love. "