Vivement Dimanche by François Truffaut. Francois Traffaut, 34 years after his first directing experience, Les quatre cents coups (1959), this time his latest movie Vivement dimanche! (1983) was behind the camera. The place where the film took us was right in the middle of a mysterious murder investigation. Massoulier (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) was killed while hunting. Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who had a fingerprint from Massoulier’s vehicle, is the number one suspect in the murder.
The killing of Julien’s wife Maitre Clement (Philippe Laudenbach) as soon as it turned out to be the mistress of Massoulier turned the arrows from good to good. At this time, however, Julien’s request for help from his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), takes the course of events in a completely different direction. Barbara will now strive to prove her boss’s innocence with her might. What happened to them in this complex series of murders will draw everyone into the center of a great mystery.
The film, where Traffaut, one of the leading names in the New Wave Stream, has been sitting in the directing chair for the last time, appears with a Hollywood-like chase unlike other works of the current. We can describe the most important reason for this as respect for Traffaut’s famous thriller Hitchcock. Vivement dimanche!, Which loses its excitement for a moment and takes the French people’s understanding of love slightly, is another hand-held film of the new wave that comes out of the molds.
Vivement Dimanche! (1983)
Directed by: François Truffaut
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Xavier Saint-Macary, Jean-Louis Richard, Caroline Silhol, Nicole Félix
Screenplay by: François Truffaut
Production Design by: Hilton McConnico
Cinematography by: Néstor Almendros
Film Editing by: Martine Barraqué
Costume Design by: Michèle Cerf
Music by: Georges Delerue
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA) (France)
Release Date: August 10, 1983
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