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Quite possibly my favorite of Truffaut's films - and unfortunately his swansong. It was his fun and fast paced ode to Noir and Hitchcock appropriately filmed in black and white. Starring his muse of the time, Fanny Ardent, who works out exceedingly well in her role. Unlike Hitch's apparent disdain for his female characters Truffaut applauds his ladies with an obvious romantic adoration. Vivement Dimanche! shows us one of the directors most unrecognized strengths - his versatility. One can almost sense a slight experimental vein in the creation process, perhaps harkening back to his Nouvelle Vague roots. Regardless, an intangible beauty in a prolific listing of film credits.

Gary W. Tooze

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ON THE DVD: It seems that Nestor Almendros has shot this film on High Contrasted material, that makes a very big shifting with black and white. There's also used some filters to make the picture more soft, to make the appearance look like old film-noir films.

What is intended and what is a mistake in reproducing this film to DVD I don't know. To me it looks a little to soft, when also the opening credits are so. Maybe as a relative new film MK2 have decided to use the tape-master that was already made some years ago.

Despite of that the DVD don't look at all bad. You can fully enjoy the film.

NOTE:
On this DVD the extra materials are not subtitled to English.

 - Per-Olof Strandberg