Puzzling and somewhat pointless drama from Francois Truffaut has a young Frenchman at the turn of the century traveling to Wales to meet with his new girlfriend and her family; once there, he finds himself falling in love with his girlfriend's troubled sister (seems sis is a bit neurotic about her own virginity, wearing it both as a badge of honor and as an angry embarrassment). Dulled-out, inert rumination from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, though many critics gave it raves. Hurt overall by colorless performances, bad art direction and a severely long running time. Truffaut added more footage for a 1984 re-release, taking it from 108 minutes to a now-astounding 132 minutes. *1/2 from ****
Review of Two English Girls
