La peau douce 1964

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: It's a curiously crude and hackneyed drama to come from Mr. Truffaut, but this way of using his actors and working his camera is up to his style. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Not a total success perhaps, but still a striking and sensitive effort. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Francois Truffaut's "The Soft Skin" is being revived at the very moment when it seems uncannily prophetic Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: [A] steely 1964 study in the cruel mechanics of illicit love. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Truffaut does show that he can make a solidly carpentered film like anybody else. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Francois Truffaut's fourth feature, The Soft Skin, has never gotten much respect -- even though many people (myself included) regard it as one of his best. Read more