Claude (Jean-Pierre Leaud) a French art dealer meets English woman Anne in Paris and the two develop a friendship. Anne invites him back to England where he meets her sister Muriel and a romantic relationship develops. He returns to Paris with a promise to return but goes on a hot streak with women and calls off the long distance engagement. He once again hooks up with free spirited Anne before pursuing Muriel with inconsistent emotion.
"Girls" is director Francois Truffaut's best looking color film attempting to re-capture the free spirit of his outstanding other Belle Epoque work featuring a triangular relationship, Jules and Jim. It doesn't. Leaud gives his usual post 400 Blows mannequin like performance, his stilted ardor for each sister in serious need of rehearsal. Stacy Tender and Kika Markham as the sisters of proper English breeding are both refined and dull, they're restraint and civility tiring. Georges Delarue also does no favors with a rather mawkish score along with Truffaut himself piling on with some insipidly, syrupy melodramatic narration.
There are some wonderful pastoral shots (Nestor Almendros) that only serve themselves to distract but trading solemnity for the vitality found in Jules and Jim, Two English Girls is one dull menage et trois.
"Girls" is director Francois Truffaut's best looking color film attempting to re-capture the free spirit of his outstanding other Belle Epoque work featuring a triangular relationship, Jules and Jim. It doesn't. Leaud gives his usual post 400 Blows mannequin like performance, his stilted ardor for each sister in serious need of rehearsal. Stacy Tender and Kika Markham as the sisters of proper English breeding are both refined and dull, they're restraint and civility tiring. Georges Delarue also does no favors with a rather mawkish score along with Truffaut himself piling on with some insipidly, syrupy melodramatic narration.
There are some wonderful pastoral shots (Nestor Almendros) that only serve themselves to distract but trading solemnity for the vitality found in Jules and Jim, Two English Girls is one dull menage et trois.