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Two English Girls
Les deux Anglaises et le continent
1971
Synopsis
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Anne, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Anne’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.
Editorial
Truffaut’s second adaptation of a Henri-Pierre Roché literary work, Two English Girls exploring love’s many dualities: between intellectual and physical love; between joy and pain. Jean-Pierre Léaud delicately embodies the figure of the romantic dandy, torn between two English sisters.
