The Bride Wore Black (1968) on Netflix
After her mother stops her from ending her own life, the widow Julie Kohler leaves home. She looks for five men, and none of them knows her.
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Plot summary
Julie Kohler is a widow. When she tries to jump from an upstairs window, her mother pulls her back, and afterward Julie packs some clothes and a large amount of money and says goodbye, leaving on a trip. On the French Riviera she looks for Bliss, a reformed womanizer, and appears at his engagement party in a high-rise apartment, where he takes an interest in her. At an orchestral performance she meets Robert Coral, a lonely bachelor, and the two arrange to see each other again the next evening. Julie means to find five men, win them over and kill them, and none of them knows who she is.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bride Wore Black (1968)
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- Cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who had shot five previous Truffaut films and had his own ideas on colour, argued with Truffaut for whole days during the shoot, and in many scenes it was the film's star, Jeanne Moreau, who directed the actors.
- The film inspired the 1970 Jesus Franco film She Killed in Ecstasy, with Soledad Miranda as the vengeful bride, the 1971 Turkish film Melek mi, Şeytan mı, the 1976 Hindi film Nagin, and Kate Bush's song "The Wedding List" on Never for Ever.
- Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill shares touches with the film, such as brides crossing off their victims' names in notebooks, but Tarantino has said he has never seen The Bride Wore Black.
