If you loved The Story of Adèle H., try The Woman Next Door

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by François Truffaut, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Story of Adèle H., the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Woman Next Door is

Truffaut does his best Sirk. A woman and her former flame find themselves neighbors in the French countryside, which complicates their marriages. It is all suitably overwrought, though perhaps not quite enough to make Douglas Sirk jealous.

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