Two English Girls

Director: François Truffaut
Year Released: 1971
Rating: 2.0

Truffaut makes a Merchant-Ivory film with a smidgen of humanity, but there's still too much dry introspectiveness and a frigid approach to love. Is there some sort of clause that goes along with making dated costume dramas that says you need to turn romantic conversations into bland ramble sessions and that topics such as death and bereavement are to be discussed so calmly that the performers could be very well reading off drink recipes? This story reduces the typically fiery – and brilliant – filmmaker to impassive voyeur; it's inexplicably considered one of his better films.