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"Suppose I'm a tramp... why can't I be in love?" (U.S. movie poster)
LA
VÉRITÉ ("The Truth") is a 1960 French-Italian suspenser, directed by
Henri-Georges Clouzot. It stars Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles
Vanel, Sami Frey and Marie-José Nat. The original screenplay was by
Clouzot, Simone Drieu, Michèle Perrein, Jérôme Géronimi, Christiane
Rochefort and Véra Clouzot. Raoul J. Lévy was the producer.
Dominique
Marceau (Bardot) is in jail, charged with the murder of her lover,
Gilbert Tellier (Frey). As the trial proceeds, she recalls the past
events that led to her present predicament. Dominique lived her own life
as a free woman, and seduced Gilbert -- who was her sister's fiancée --
for fun, while dating several other men. Her lawyer (Vanel) is prepared
to try anything to help her, but the rules of society are against
Dominique. And the truth may not be enough to save her.
After the
financial failure of Clouzot's 1957 film, "Les Espions", producer Raoul
Levy suggested that the director's next film should star Brigitte
Bardot. In response, Clouzot began work on the screenplay for LA VÉRITÉ,
which would become France's' second most popular film of 1960, and
Bardot's highest grossing picture. The actress later described LA VÉRITÉ
as her favorite of all the films she worked on.
In the U.S., LA
VÉRITÉ was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film, but lost to Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring". The movie was
filmed in the Studios Joinville, outside of Paris, and through out the
Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of the city. Armand Thirard, who
collaborated with Clouzot on both "Diabolique" and "The Wages of Fear",
among others, was the cinematographer.
English subtitles have been embedded.
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