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November 02, 2011 Film » Film Reviews

Men Who Love Women, and the Woman Who Kills Them: The Bride Wore Black

by Mark Asch

The Bride Wore Black (1968) Directed by François Truffaut Spectacularly unconvincing in spite of its fervid, repetitive, tropically overheated prose, Cornell Woolrich's extremely rococo noir novel The Bride Wore Black—concerning a mysterious beauty committing a string of revenge murders or befuddled, enraptured,…

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