1964, Francois Truffaut
Pretty conventional stuff
remarkably small ASL, quick, rythmic editing to convey excitement
good use of backs of head, to make it very Hitchocky (also some sillouhettes)
Clearly Hitchcock influenced all around, with the fast edits and music to indicate suspense (clear uses of audience omniscience suspense, with cross-cutting)
Of course, there is more of a casualness in some of the characterisation
low contrast and pretty high key lighting give it a commercial sheen
which does stop it being able to quite have, again, that sense of horror in Hitchcock
Similarity with 'Jules Et Jim' in the unknowability of the women, the slightly pathetic men
reasonably entertaining, but no great work
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