Silken Skin (aka La Peau Douce) doesn’t spoon-feed us conventionally ‘sympathetic’ characters: instead, Truffaut plays up their fateful inability to communicate meaningfully in a modern urban world.
In its beady observation of an intellectual who doesn't know his own mind it fascinates, like watching a very slow car-crash.
Raoul Coutard's black-and-white images are splendid.
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