The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Directed by François Truffaut
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
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Rather like Jeanne Moreau's avenging newlywed in Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black (her husband was shot on the church steps following the ceremony), The Bride seeks to exact a suitable revenge.
Taking a cue from Francois Truffaut's 1968 film The Bride Wore Black, the simple plot has The Bride (Uma Thurman) taking revenge on five dangerous killers.
Just as RZA's score samples Morricone, Herrmann and Quincy Jones, cameraman Robert Richardson 's dazzling visual iconography comes from The Bride Wore Black, Nikita and Modesty Blaise, Takashi Miike and Seijun Suzuki, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone, Kinji Fukasaku and Brian De Palma, Shaw Brothers' chop socky, Jack Hill blaxploitation and '70s TV schlock - and there's even a cool animé section.
You can bet QT has), some Asian standards there, mixed in with Truffaut (whose The Bride Wore Black informs Kill Bill more than a little, though Tarantino has denied seeing it; I doubt this) and nasty X-rated Swedish exploitation (They Call Her One-Eye, an influence on the heroine and one of her betrayers).
The Bride Wore Black meets Charlie’s Angels when Uma Thurman’s nameless protagonista (referred to as The Bride) wakes up from a four-year coma and decides to eliminate the titular mob boss’s motley crew of assassins who put her there.
By the time the story—inspired by Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black—begins, we've sat through another "teaser trailer" for the film.
The wife is Uma Thurman in a black wig. (A reference to Louise Brooks? Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black?)
François Truffaut ("Mississippi Mermaid"/"Jules and Jim"/"The Wild Child") calls his film a love story, which it is if you think about it.
François Truffaut paid homage to his hero Alfred Hitchcock with 1968's The Bride Wore Black, an adaptation of the novel by Cornell Woolrich (and reviewed earlier this year in this column).
As the second Hitchcock homage that Truffaut produced (after The Bride Wore Black), it manages to be the movie that Birthday Girl often seems to yearn to be.