Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I liked the movie but it was very dumb. It's funny to see and i enjoyed it. It's a good movie to watch without any expectation. It's not a movie to take it seriously. The story is basically this: Claude lives in Paris, France. And Ann and Muriel live in England. Claude meets Ann and Ann invites Claude to she's mother's house to vacations. Claude meets Muriel and he gets in love with Muriel. Claude asks Muriel to marry him but the first time Muriel says no. The second time she says maybe. And finally she says yes. But the two families says that they can't meet or send messages between them in a year. If after that year they still in love they can get married without any problem. But after 6 months Claude starts dating with another girls and he forgets Muriel. But Muriel still loves him and she gets in a terrible depression. Then Ann goes to Paris and gets in love with Claude. But they still dating with other people with no problem. So Ann goes to Persia with a boyfriend but when she gets back she leaves him and get back to Claude. But she dies of tuberculosis that she got in Persia, thats why she leaved her boyfriend. Then Muriel mets Claude in Brucelas and they both have sex. But Muriel leaves him to "make her happiness stay". And finally she have kids with another man.Finally the idea it's that finally she leaves him after being terribly depressed. This idea it's just dumb! And he have sex with Muriel because Ann died. The idea it's dumb! Finally Claude it's a douchebag. But it's a funny movie.

Puzzling and somewhat pointless drama from Francois Truffaut has a young Frenchman at the turn of the century traveling to Wales to meet with his new girlfriend and her family; once there, he finds himself falling in love with his girlfriend's troubled sister (seems sis is a bit neurotic about her own virginity, wearing it both as a badge of honor and as an angry embarrassment). Dulled-out, inert rumination from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, though many critics gave it raves. Hurt overall by colorless performances, bad art direction and a severely long running time. Truffaut added more footage for a 1984 re-release, taking it from 108 minutes to a now-astounding 132 minutes. *1/2 from ****

A mildly moving, inoffensive Truffaut movie about a young French bloke (played by Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Léaud, far more remarkable in movies such as Les Quatrecent Coups) who in turn romances two English (or rather, Welsh!) sisters, set during the first decade of the 20th century. It's a French movie and features a love triangle, so that for a start could have turned it into a potentially unoriginal and cliché-ridden affair. Yet the main problem I had with it wasn't so much the well-treaded theme of the love triangle, as the voice-over which somehow gave the feeling the narrative was rather weak (and I suspect it was). The characters of the two sisters, especially the older sister, were surprisingly better drawn than the male lead's (or maybe it just had something to do with the fact the two actresses playing them were more appealing than the inexpressive, boyish Léaud - I simply could not bring myself to believe that these two girls would both feel so attracted to such a bland young man! He was definitely more engaging as Antoine Doinel!). The movie was also successful at portraying something of the difficulty in relations between the sexes in the Edwardian era - how young men and women really needed to go clandestine if they hoped to even get to know each other decently (not just carnally but also emotionally). The issue of women's sexuality, and how it was virtually denied them in this epoch - the price to be paid for so-called respectability - is also a theme that's successfully conveyed by the movie. How could a woman rightfully claim her own sexual identity in such a day and age? An interesting question worth raising. Fortunately, we were spared any simplistic clichés contrasting "libertine France" vs. "strait-laced Britain" as well.This is on the whole also a good-looking movie, with lovely sets, costumes and photography. One question: why does everyone in the movie (including the title) keep referring to the two sisters as English when they live in Wales and define themselves as Welsh?

The two English sisters are as different as night and day. Yet they wear similar costumes. The young man who loves them does a highly believable job throughout the story. The seaside scenery and the young man's acting carry the movie through. The young man's love for Muriel is almost heartbreaking.Truffaut is at his strongest with this film. He balances French sensitivity with English fullness of personality quite well. I like this better than most of Truffaut's other movies. The movie does not lag at all.Throughout the movie we are left to wonder. Will it be Muriel? Will it be Anne? The two sisters do good acting jobs. The casting of Muriel was excellent, as her face was very distinctive.