The Soft Skin (film)

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La Peau Douce (The Soft Skin) is a 1964 French film directed by François Truffaut.

Despite Truffaut's star being on the ascent after Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows, La Peau Douce failed at the box office and was blamed by Jean Desailly as the film that ruined his career.

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The story revolves around Desailly's character, Pierre Lachenay, a university lecturer who specialises on Balzac who travels to Lisbon for a conference.

Despite being married, he becomes involved with an air hostess and what was a one night stand becomes a long-term relationship. Torn between his wife and child and his younger lover, his life rapidly becomes unbearable. Finally, he takes the decision to leave his wife but she takes revenge by shooting him in a Parisian café.

Despite receiving very mixed reviews upon release, La Peau Douce is considered by some Truffaut specialists to be one of his strongest efforts. Strangely, the director's own life followed the same path as the uncertain Lachenay's when Truffaut left his wife for Fanny Ardant. For the expectant audience, it was quite afar from the kinetic joie de vivre of Jules et Jim and possibly perceived as overly serious for a director who had tended towards lighter films up to that point.

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The Films of François Truffaut
1950s Une Visite • Les Mistons • Une Histoire d'eau • The 400 Blows
1960s Shoot the Piano Player • Jules and Jim • Antoine and Colette • The Soft Skin • Fahrenheit 451 • The Bride Wore Black • Stolen Kisses • Mississippi Mermaid
1970s The Wild Child • Bed and Board • Two English Girls • Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me • Day for Night • The Story of Adele H. • Small Change • The Man Who Loved Women • The Green Room • Love on the Run
1980s The Last Metro • The Woman Next Door • Confidentially Yours
Screenplay only L'Agence Magique • Breathless • The Little Thief • Belle Époque
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