Confidentially Yours

Confidentially Yours (French title: Vivement dimanche!, known as Finally, Sunday! in other English-speaking markets) is a 1983 French film directed by François Truffaut. Based on the novel The Long Saturday Night by the American author Charles Williams, it tells the story of Julien Vercel, an estate agent who is suspected of murdering his wife and her lover. As Vercel is hidden in his office, his secretary Barbara Becker investigates these suspicious murders. It was Truffaut's last film, he died the next year, aged 52, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The film had a total of 1,176,425 admissions in France and was the 39th highest-grossing film of the year.[2]

Confidentially Yours
Theatrical poster
Directed byFrançois Truffaut
Produced byArmand Barbault
François Truffaut
Written byJean Aurel
Suzanne Schiffman
François Truffaut
Based onThe Long Saturday Night by Charles Williams
StarringFanny Ardant
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Music byGeorges Delerue
CinematographyNéstor Almendros
Edited byMartine Barraqué
Production
company
Les Films du Carrosse
Films A2
Soprofilms
Distributed byActeurs Auteurs Associés (original release)
Release date
  • 10 August 1983 (1983-08-10)
Running time
110 minutes
LanguageFrench
Box office1,176,425 admissions (France)[1]

Plot

Julien Vercel, who is a real estate agent in the south of France, is hunting for duck in the reeds by the lake, while a man named Massoulier, who hunts in the same area, is shot dead. Julien, who returns to his office, is soon questioned by the police who came to the workplace. In this query, Julien learns that he is the main suspect, because when he left the hunt, he saw Massoulier's parked car and closed its engine and opened its door, so that the battery would not run out, so there were fingerprints left in the car. Furthermore, it is said at the police station that the deceased Massoulier and Julien's wife Marie-Christine had a relationship. Julien comes out of the station with the help of his lawyer Clement. When asked, his wife does not deny this relationship with very comfortable manners. Soon after, the wife is brutally killed by those who enter the house. Now doubts are beginning to be concentrated on more. While planning to go to the city of Nice, where his wife previously lived, his secretary Barbara Becker intervenes and recommends him that she should do the research on his behalf. Barbara is secretly in love with her boss, whereas Julien, who is a funky man, has always been indifferent to her. Moreover, he has fired her from the office as a result of a quarrel between them.

While Julien hides in his real estate office instead of surrendering to the police, Barbara, who travels to Nice, starts investigating the past life of Marie-Christine, who died as a full detective. The clues lead him to the dark past of his boss's deceased wife. She learns that Marie-Christine's real name is Josiane Kerbel, she is married to a gambler, that she works like an esthetician because of her gambling debts and then marries Julien with the name of false Marie-Christine. In the meantime, the tracks lead them to a movie theater, then to a night club, and from there to the dark labyrinths of the prostitution sector. Meanwhile, the box office clerk who constantly threatens Julien on the phone is stabbed to death. Feeling that the lawyer was reluctant to defend Julien as the police circle narrowed around Julien, Barbara solves the events: Clement is the lawyer who committed the murders. The lawyer has a relationship with Julien's wife and killed Massoulier because Marie-Christine wanted him, Marie-Christine because of jealousy and blackmail the box office clerk. Barbara and a savvy police chief, a vigilant and resourceful woman, work together to set a trap for the lawyer. Clement, who smells the trap based on the sound recording at the last minute, commits suicide in the phone booth by admitting everything on the phone when he sees the approaching cops. Julien and Barbara get married. They are married by the deceased Massoulier's brother.

Cast

Awards and nominations
Year Award ceremony Category Nominee Result
1984 BAFTA Awards Best Foreign Film Confidentially yours Nominated
César Awards Best Director François Truffaut Nominated
Best Actress Fanny Ardant Nominated

References
  1. Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films at Box Office Story
  2. JP. "Vivement dimanche (1983)- JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. Allen, Don. Finally Truffaut. New York: Beaufort Books. 1985. ISBN 0-8253-0335-4. OCLC 12613514. pp. 239-240.
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