THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR (François Truffaut, 1981)

At least as Jamesian as his La chambre verte (The Green Room) three years earlier, which is drawn from two stories by Henry James, François Truffaut’s La femme d’à côté posits a slippery narrative about a doomed love affair. The narrator, Odile Jouve, alerts us to the fact that things aren’t always as they seem; […]