In 1967, film critic turned filmmaker Francois Truffaut wrote a book – a series of detailed conversational interviews, actually – in which he and Alfred Hitchcock examined and discussed every one of Hitch’s films. (The book was called Hitchcock/Truffaut, and a revised edition, covering Hitchcock’s final films, was published in 1985.) The original book, a marvel of detail and insight and cinematic passion from both men, was one of my inspirations to become a critic. And the year after that first book was published, Truffaut went off and made this 1968 movie, a full-length homage to Hitchcock utilizing many of the details he’d probed in their conversations together. Jeanne Moreau plays a woman who reacts to her husband’s death by seeking revenge on those men she feels responsible – using her feminine wiles as her primary murder weapon. To make the Hitchcock connections even sweeter: the musical score is by Bernard Herrmann, who wrote the music for Psycho, and the story is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich, whose work also inspired Hitchcock’s Rear Window.