Finally Sunday!

Vivement dimanche!

Truffaut’s final film is a light-hearted thriller, as an estate agent’s secretary investigates the murder of her boss’s wife.

Photograph: Alain Venisse

  • Director

    François Truffaut

  • With

    Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Philippe Laudenbach

  • France 1983. 110min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Based on a novel by Charles Williams, Finally Sunday! follows the Hitchcockian tradition of serio-comic romantic thrillers, in which a man suspected of a crime enlists a woman to prove his innocence; here, the secretary (Ardant) of a Marseilles estate agent (Trintignant) investigates the murder of his wife’s lover. An eventful, labyrinthine narrative and Néstor Almendros’ elegant monochrome images evoke numerous mysteries that have gone before.

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