Le Mercredi Français – E Mërkura Franceze
With the support of the Embassy of France in Albania and in the frames of the Mercredi Français (French Wednesday), two weeks in a month screening of François Truffaut’s films:
Screening on the 26th of January 2011 – 19:00 – Free Entrance
“Les deux anglaises et le Continent” (Two English Girls)
by François Truffaut
124 min – 1971 – France – Drame – Romance – (with English subtitles)
with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter…
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter…
Cut by 20 minutes when released, the version presented today is the full editing assured in 1984 by Martine Barraqué in collaboration with François Truffaut. By that time, the title had become “Two english girls”, but the original title is “The two english girls and the continent” according to the book by Henri-Pierre Roché.
Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre
