La mariée était en noir 1968

Renata Adler, New York Times: Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes, not at all Hitchcockian, but a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Unfortunately, Truffaut fell into a pit of awkwardness on the project; editingwise, he's hardly in the league of Hitchcock, his sequences rushing ahead, his ironies too obvious. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Basically an exercice de style, and a good one at that. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Truffaut suggests a nation straining to burst its carapace of moralism. The film's subject and its object converge in the same self-liberating social revolution that would shake the country the following year. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Miss Moreau remains one of the screen's great actresses, and there is a supporting cast of unusual quality. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: With its summery, Mediterranean surface, Jeanne Moreau as the ultimate femme fatale heroine and a knife-twisting tale of murderous revenge and unexpected romance, "The Bride Wore Black" is well worth rediscovering. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: For all of Truffaut's digressive asides, deadpan gags, and lyrical cinephiliac touches, his slow-starting movie is overly schematic, emotionally shallow, and not so much fun. Read more