Two English Girls

Two English Girls (original French title: Les deux anglaises et le continent, UK Title: Anne and Muriel), is a 1971 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on a 1956 novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. The novel was available in its first English translation as of January, 2004, translated by Walter Bruno, published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Camb... more

Two English Girls (original French title: Les deux anglaises et le continent, UK Title: Anne and Muriel), is a 1971 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on a 1956 novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. The novel was available in its first English translation as of January, 2004, translated by Walter Bruno, published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Cambridge, WI. The film begins in Paris, somewhere around the year 1902. Claude Roc (Leaud), a young middle-class Frenchman, meets Ann Brown (Markham), a young Englishwoman, and they become quick friends. Ann invites Claude to spend the holidays at her family's mansion, where we meet Ann's widowed mother (Marriott) and younger sister Muriel (Tendeter). During the holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and Claude gradually falls in love with Muriel. Not fully knowing the couple's intentions, both families lay down a one-year-long... less