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Two English Girls

Jean-Pierre Léaud (Actor), Philippe Léotard (Actor), Francois Truffaut (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
IMDb7.2/10.0
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Format Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Contributor Irene Tunc, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Francois Truffaut, Philippe Léotard, Kika Markham, David Markham See more
Language French
Runtime 2 hours
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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Francois Truffaut
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 18, 1999
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, David Markham, Kika Markham, Sylvia Marriott
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Fox Lorber
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1572524839
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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3.4 out of 5 stars
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J. MacTavish
5.0 out of 5 stars Truffaut's Best
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2002
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Truffaut made lots of great movies, and lots of mediocre ones. "Two English Girls" stands out, I think, as his best.
Like "Jules and Jim," this film involves a love triangle, only instead of two men and woman, as the title suggests, this triangle is made up of two women (sisters) and a man named Claude (Jean-Pierre Leaud).
Initially, during an extended stay at the girls home in England, Claude falls in love with Muriel (Stacey Tendeter), but after a period of separation, he decides to "play the field." When Muriel's sister Anne (Kika Markham) moves to Paris, Claude begins a relationship with her, only to find that she can play the field too. Eventually, Claude and Muriel come together for one night, and the experience rekindles Claude's love. But it is not to be. I won't spoil the films ending, but will say that it leaves only the most unsentimental viewers without tears in their eyes.
The films sole flaw is a short part in which Muriel confesses to masturbation in a letter. This detracts from what is otherwise a supremely sensitive and touching film.
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jmg
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2014
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The CinemaScope Cat
3.0 out of 5 stars Second tier Truffaut
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2012
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At the turn of the century, a young Frenchman (Jean Pierre Leaud) meets a young English girl (Kika Markham) in Paris. She invites him to England to spend time with her mother (Sylvia Marriott) and sister (Stacey Tendeter) with the notion of playing matchmaker between him and her sister. Eventually, both sisters become romantically involved with him. Francois Truffaut directs this film based on the novel by Henri Pierre Roche which is a gender reversal of another Roche novel, JULES ET JIM (also made into a film by Truffaut) which had a woman in love with two men. The film suffers terribly in comparison to Truffaut's previous film. None of the characters are as fascinating or compelling as Jeanne Moreau's Catherine. Leaud, looking bewildered through it all, gives a stilted, passionless performance. Just what the two sisters see in him is lost on us. While the two actresses playing the sisters fare somewhat better, for a film about love and passion it's too analytical. Don't talk about it endlessly for over two hours, show us! Truffaut does the narration and the exquisite score is by Georges Delerue (who has a cameo as Leaud's business manager). With Philippe Leotard and David Markham (Kika's father, who played Jacqueline Bisset's husband in DAY FOR NIGHT).

The Fox Lorber DVD is an adequate if unexceptional transfer with burned in English subtitles and presented full frame.
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John Farr
5.0 out of 5 stars Two English Girls
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2007
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Adapted from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche (like Truffaut's "Jules and Jim"), "Girls" is an engaging, erotic tale about a uniquely conflicted love triangle, since the English lasses in question are not only rivals for Claude's love but siblings. Truffaut regular Léaud's Claude is endearing, as is Markham's highly artistic Anne. Before his death in 1984, the director restored 20 minutes of footage, and the definitive version is presented here. With its gorgeous coastal settings and a lovely score by Georges Delerue, "Two English Girls" will seduce moviegoers in the mood for love.
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Julian Wasser
5.0 out of 5 stars The nouvelle vague at it's best. At last a good French film.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015
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Very touching story about 2 English sisters
and their French friend. Much better than
400 Blows.
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Jules Anderson
4.0 out of 5 stars Freckled rebellion
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2009
The great films of Truffuat are those where the director's playful stylism is counterweighed by an emotionally attuned surface-layer of depth. "Two English Girls", although very much a beauty, isn't one of those. It's not marked by the virtuoso camera work of early masterworks such as "Shoot The Piano Player", or the astutely awed comedic detail of "Day For Night" or even by a gargantuan performance like "The Wild Child". And missing most, is Truffaut's great talent in invoking a child's world of wonder (so proudly displayed (in his best film) "Small Change")...but it's not all bad.

Thankfully, this film has two immediate merits that make it unexpendible: 1) The music by Georges Delerue, who here crafts a score reminicent of late period Mozart; a haunting procession of melopheic still life and graceful sadness, it's without a doubt his finest work made for the filmmaker. 2) Nestor Almendros glorious natural photography. Almendros, along with Sven Nykvist and John Alcott, was one of his generation's giants of cinematography, and like "Days of Heaven" and Almendros' films for Eric Rohmer, the look of this one hasn't aged a day.

Truffaut fashioned the film as a sort of reverse-sequel to "Jules And Jim", which was one of his greatest successes. Based on a book by "Jim" author Henri-Pierre Roche, the film's set in an identical period (turn of the century France), and given the familiar plot (a love triange, only this time it's two women to one lucky guy). The man is Claude (Jean-Pierre Leaud, think a Franciese, intellectualized Tom Cruise), who hails from a rich boring family and spends summers as a young man in England as the company of two seemingly puritan sisters, Anne (Kika Markham) and the younger Muriel (Stacey Tendeter). Over time, Claude's parisian-boho morals infume these two women causing each in turn to fall in love with him.

Although Leuad is the movie's centerpiece, we never feel like we quite know (or care) for him. Art mingles with life when Claude writes a book called "Jerome and Julian", but I found it nowhere believable that this spoiled, distracted character was the kind of man who could pen a novel. In the end, the performance comes off as unconvincing and a wee bit vague. The same can be said of Markham's Anne. Could such an alluring but strangely very passive woman have three heated love affairs in a tiny stretch of time? Luckily, Tendeter's Muriel makes up for it. Pokerfaced with her eyes hidden behind a jet-black lense set, this stiff, implosive, reprehensibe, timid-yet-outspoken firecrotch is a salad of silent bouts and stubborn fits. And Tendeter, whose lines cross her face with freckled rebellion, fills her shoes like she's trotted this feisty woman's path quite naturally.

It helps that Tendeter is given the two greatest scenes in the film, one involving a sensual confession of female masturbation and the other a blood soaked moment when Claude busts Muriel's virginity (a discomforting image in tone with the glass-cutting scene from Bergman's "Cries and Whispers").

But those searching for a return to the whip-panning style of "Jules and Jim" will be sorely disappointed, as "Two English Girls" is more in common stylistically with Merchant Ivory, or a slower, theatrically paced later Truffaut film like "The Last Metro" (not my cup of tea by a longshot). Yet I recommend it for the blissful sound and image and for it's portrayal of a woman who, as a result of betraying her innocence, is touched by acid in the soul. Like Ullmann in "Cries and Whispers" or any of the traitorous medusic nemesi' in the films of Tarkovksy: she's a tarnished, fractured, anguished, bitter, unpleasantly human redhead.
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