{"id":14897,"date":"2022-04-09T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14897"},"modified":"2022-04-09T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T21:24:03","slug":"the-soft-skin-1964-francois-truffaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14897","title":{"rendered":"The Soft Skin (1964, Francois Truffaut)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous lecturer Jean Desailly (of a couple Melville films) picks up stewardess Francoise Dorl\u00e9ac (a couple years before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11192\">Cul-de-sac<\/a><\/em>) and talks endlessly about Balzac at the bar.  He falls for her, but is married, and the whole movie is about how hard it is to have a secret affair.  It&#8217;s even harder because he&#8217;s well known, but he acts like Francoise has no other options, and is a pain in the ass to her for almost their own relationship, so when he finally proposes, she breaks up with him.  And then his wife finds out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/softskin2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The music took the whole thing seriously from the start.  It&#8217;s a suave, smooth looking movie, each scene patiently revealing.  A jump cut or two just to remind us this is the FNW, overall more admirable than any fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/softskin1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/softskin3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous lecturer Jean Desailly (of a couple Melville films) picks up stewardess Francoise Dorl\u00e9ac (a couple years before Cul-de-sac) and talks endlessly about Balzac at the bar. He falls for her, but is married, and the whole movie is about how hard it is to have a secret affair. It&#8217;s even harder because he&#8217;s well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,297,13,34,53],"class_list":["post-14897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-balzac","tag-criterion","tag-france","tag-francois-truffaut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14926,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions\/14926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}