Anybody else wonder why Julie, in her thirties presumably, was just then marrying her childhood sweetheart? "I waited for him." Perhaps he was married to someone else in the interim? Perhaps she was obsessed with him over all those years, and that would help explain her behavior when he died. Does the novel tell about it?
shareIt is simply that François Truffaut used Jeanne Moreau and not a younger actress. The bit about waiting for her childhood sweetheart just indicated there was no other love in her life than the guy got who got killed -- fueling her quest for vengeance. The story is full of holes, but so what? Still a terrific movie, great score, suspenseful, unfortunately not out on DVD.
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Actually I think we're meant to regard Julie as twentysomething, even though Jeanne Moreau was almost forty when the movie was made. Also, it was only several years after her husband was killed that Julie started murdering the unfortunate culprits, so you have to add those years to get her age at the time the story takes place.
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In the flashback when she is killing the second man, Cookie's father, they have a scene where Julie and her husband, as children, are running in bride and groom costumes. She tells the man to be murdered that she had never looked at another boy and her guy had never looked at another girl.
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