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''The Truth'' (French title: ''La Vérité'') is a 1960 French courtroom drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Creator/BrigitteBardot.
''The Truth'' (French title: ''La Vérité'') is a 1960 French courtroom drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Creator/BrigitteBardot.
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''The Truth'' (French title: ''La Vérité'') is a 1960 French courtroom drama film written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Creator/BrigitteBardot.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a nice shirt.
** In the end, Gilbert has sex once with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
** Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a nice shirt.
** In the end, Gilbert has sex once with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Gilbert (Archie) is in a love triangle with Annie (Betty), a serious, hard-working and wise girl, and Dominique (Veronica), a promiscuous, provocative and unfaithful girl.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Gilbert (Archie) is in a love triangle with Annie (Betty), a serious, hard-working and wise girl, and Dominique (Veronica), a promiscuous, provocative and unfaithful girl. At first, Gilbert chooses Dominique, but he finally dumps her and gets engaged with Annie.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Dominique is promiscuous, provocative and lazy. Her sister Annie is serious, hard-working and wise.
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** In the end, Gilbert has sex with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
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** In the end, Gilbert has sex once with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
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* BungledSuicide: Dominique has quite a history of attempting to kill herself and failing due to someone's timely intervention, leading the prosecution to accuse her of doing it just to get attention. [[spoiler:The last time she attempts it, it doesn't fail.]]
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* BettyAndVeronica: Gilbert (Archie) is in a love triangle with Annie (Betty), a serious, hard-working and wise girl, and Dominique (Veronica), a promiscuous, provocative and unfaithful girl.
* BungledSuicide: Dominique has quite a history of attempting to kill herself and failing due to someone's timely intervention, leading the prosecution to accuse her of doing it just to get attention. [[spoiler:The last time she attempts it, it doesn't fail.]]
* BungledSuicide: Dominique has quite a history of attempting to kill herself and failing due to someone's timely intervention, leading the prosecution to accuse her of doing it just to get attention.
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** In the end, she tries to cut her veins in prison, but she is still alive the next morning and brought to the hospital. {{Subverted|Trope}} because she finally dies.
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** In the end, she tries to cut her veins in prison, but she is still alive the next morning and brought to the hospital. {{Subverted|Trope}} because she [[spoiler:she finally dies.dies]].
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** When her parents refuse to let her go to Paris, she tries to kill herself by swallowing drugs. She survives.
** After Gilbert definitely dumps her, she wants to kill herself with a gun in front of him. She finally shoots him down. Since she has no bullet left, she tries to kill herself by inhalating gas. She is saved by the firemen.
** In the end, she tries to cut her veins in prison, but she is still alive the next morning and brought to the hospital. {{Subverted|Trope}} because she finally dies.
** After Gilbert definitely dumps her, she wants to kill herself with a gun in front of him. She finally shoots him down. Since she has no bullet left, she tries to kill herself by inhalating gas. She is saved by the firemen.
** In the end, she tries to cut her veins in prison, but she is still alive the next morning and brought to the hospital. {{Subverted|Trope}} because she finally dies.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a nice shirt.
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* YourCheatingHeart: YourCheatingHeart:
** Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a niceshirt.shirt.
** In the end, Gilbert has sex with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
** Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a nice
** In the end, Gilbert has sex with Dominique while he is engaged with Annie.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Gilbert is jealous and he constantly thinks that Dominique cheats on him, even if in reality she cheats on him only once, which is not much for a promiscuous girl like her. Gilbert is sometimes violent with Dominique.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Gilbert is jealous and he constantly thinks that Dominique cheats on him, even if in reality she cheats on him only once, which is not much for a promiscuous girl like her. Gilbert is sometimes violent with Dominique.Dominique when he realizes that she cheated on him with Jérôme.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dominique cheats on Gilbert only once when they are in a relationship. She sleeps with Jérôme because he is wearing a nice shirt.
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* SpoiledBrat: Dominique is stated to have been pampered as a child. As a result, she’s pretty childish and threatens to commit suicide every time she doesn’t get her way.
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* SpoiledBrat: Dominique is stated to have been pampered as a child. As a result, she’s pretty childish and threatens to commit suicide every time she doesn’t get her way.way.
* TheUnFavourite: Dominique pretends that her parents always favoured her sister Annie.
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* TheUnFavourite: Dominique pretends that her parents always favoured her sister Annie.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: When Gilbert comes to her flat for the first time, Dominique perfectly understand that he will be aroused if he sees her naked, but she does not give a damn about it.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: When Gilbert comes to her flat for the first time, Dominique perfectly understand understands that he will be aroused if he sees her naked, but she does not give a damn about it.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Gilbert immediately falls for Dominique when he meets her. (To be fair, she is naked in her bedsheets and she is jiggling.)
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* NakedFirstImpression: Dominique is naked in her bedsheets when she meets Gilbert for the first time. She does not give a damn about it.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Dominique sleeps with many men. During her relationship with Gilbert, she cheats on him only once, which shows that she really loves him.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: When Gilbert comes to her flat for the first time, Dominique perfectly understand that he will be aroused if he sees her naked, but she does not give a damn about it.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: When Gilbert comes to her flat for the first time, Dominique perfectly understand that he will be aroused if he sees her naked, but she does not give a damn about it.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In the end of the trial, Dominique's lawyer tells that it is not her fault if all the males want to possess her, implying that her beauty is the cause of her behaviour and her misfortune.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Gilbert is jealous and he constantly thinks that Dominique cheats on him, even if in reality she cheats on him only once, which is not much for a promiscuous girl like her. Gilbert is sometimes violent with Dominique.
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* ClassicalMusicIsBoring: Dominique thinks that classical music is boring. So, she thinks that her sister and Gilbert are boring because they play classical music. Partially {{Subverted|Trope}} because she is charmed by Gilbert when he is conducting an orchestra.
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* OppositesAttract: Gilbert and Dominique fall in love with each other, even if they are very different. Dominique is superficial, lazy and promiscuous, while Gilbert is hard-working and serious. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because they constantly quarrel because of that when they are in a relationship.
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* DestructiveRomance: Dominique and Gilbert constantly quarrel when they are in a relationship. When Gilbert breaks up, Dominique is an EmptyShell. The ultimate consequences of their relationship are the murder of Gilbert by Dominique and Dominique's suicide.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Gilbert is in a love triangle with Dominique, a very promiscuous girl, and her sister Annie, a very serious girl.
* MistakenForCheating: Gilbert thinks that Dominique cheats on him with the owner of the bar because he drives her home every day. He breaks up with her because of that.
* MistakenForCheating: Gilbert thinks that Dominique cheats on him with the owner of the bar because he drives her home every day. He breaks up with her because of that.
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* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: When she meets Gilbert and starts a relationship with him, Dominique refuses to have sex with him at first, even if she is very promiscuous and she sleeps with another guy during this period (the biker).
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* FramingDevice: The trial of Dominique for the murder of Gilbert is used as a framing device to recount her story.
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* HowWeGotHere: The story starts as Dominique's trial begins. Then there are several {{Flashback}}s that recount her story.
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* LawProcedural: The movie is about the trial of Dominique before the Assize Court.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Gilbert falls for Dominique (and he forgets the wiser Annie) even if he knows that she is promiscuous. He even tells her that he loves her even if she has many faults. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because Dominique's prmiscuity makes him jealous and he finally breaks up with her because of that. In the end, Dominique is miserable.
* MyGirlIsASlut: Gilbert falls for Dominique (and he forgets the wiser Annie) even if he knows that she is promiscuous. He even tells her that he loves her even if she has many faults. {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because Dominique's prmiscuity makes him jealous and he finally breaks up with her because of that. In the end, Dominique is miserable.
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* {{Shoutout}}: Dominique is described as immoral during her trial because she read ''The Mandarins'', a 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir (Creator/JeanPaulSartre's partner).
* SiblingTriangle: Dominique and her sister Annie both loves Gilbert. Annie is interested in him when he meets Dominique. Then Gilbert starts a relationship with Dominique and Annie is jealous. After Gilbert breaks up with Dominique, he makes up with Annie and gets engages with her. Dominique tries to win him back.
* SiblingTriangle: Dominique and her sister Annie both loves Gilbert. Annie is interested in him when he meets Dominique. Then Gilbert starts a relationship with Dominique and Annie is jealous. After Gilbert breaks up with Dominique, he makes up with Annie and gets engages with her. Dominique tries to win him back.
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''The Truth'' (French title: ''La Vérité'') is a 1960 French courtroom drama film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Creator/BrigitteBardot.
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* ConversationCut: The movie is fond of this. Quite a number of conversations between Dominique and Gilbert involve one asking a question, the scene changing, and the other one answering and the conversation keeps going.
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''The Truth'' (French title: ''La Vérité'') is a 1960 French courtroom drama film starring Creator/BrigitteBardot.
Bardot plays Dominique Marceau, who’s being tried for murdering an ex-lover. Various testimonies reveal her as an irresponsible young woman who moves to Paris with her sister Annie, a promising, serious music student. Dominique starts seeing Annie’s colleague Gilbert, an aspiring maestro, and things go downhill from there.
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* BungledSuicide: Dominique has quite a history of attempting to kill herself and failing due to someone's timely intervention, leading the prosecution to accuse her of doing it just to get attention. [[spoiler:The last time she attempts it, it doesn't fail.]]
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the movie, Dominique sees herself in a mirror in prison. At the end, she shatters that mirror and [[spoiler:uses a shard to kill herself (successfully this time).]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dominique kills herself in prison. The prosecution finds no satisfaction in that.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Dominique and Annie. The former is a hedonist who dropped out of school and has no long-term plans, while Annie is seriously working on her music career.
* ForegoneConclusion: Dominique is being tried for murdering Gilbert, so you already know the flashback sequences will end with him dying.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Dominique and her sister don’t get along at all.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Before killing herself for real, Dominique writes a suicide letter, which is read in court.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Inverted. Gilbert is supposedly the only man the promiscuous Dominique has ever loved.
* LaughingMad: Dominique laughs in insanity immediately after killing Gilbert.
* ProperlyParanoid: Gilbert’s friend is convinced that Dominique will try something against him after hearing she’s bought a gun. Gilbert dismisses the thought, but as it turns out, his friend was right.
* SpoiledBrat: Dominique is stated to have been pampered as a child. As a result, she’s pretty childish and threatens to commit suicide every time she doesn’t get her way.
Bardot plays Dominique Marceau, who’s being tried for murdering an ex-lover. Various testimonies reveal her as an irresponsible young woman who moves to Paris with her sister Annie, a promising, serious music student. Dominique starts seeing Annie’s colleague Gilbert, an aspiring maestro, and things go downhill from there.
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!!Tropes:
* BungledSuicide: Dominique has quite a history of attempting to kill herself and failing due to someone's timely intervention, leading the prosecution to accuse her of doing it just to get attention. [[spoiler:The last time she attempts it, it doesn't fail.]]
* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the movie, Dominique sees herself in a mirror in prison. At the end, she shatters that mirror and [[spoiler:uses a shard to kill herself (successfully this time).]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Dominique kills herself in prison. The prosecution finds no satisfaction in that.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Dominique and Annie. The former is a hedonist who dropped out of school and has no long-term plans, while Annie is seriously working on her music career.
* ForegoneConclusion: Dominique is being tried for murdering Gilbert, so you already know the flashback sequences will end with him dying.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Dominique and her sister don’t get along at all.
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Before killing herself for real, Dominique writes a suicide letter, which is read in court.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Inverted. Gilbert is supposedly the only man the promiscuous Dominique has ever loved.
* LaughingMad: Dominique laughs in insanity immediately after killing Gilbert.
* ProperlyParanoid: Gilbert’s friend is convinced that Dominique will try something against him after hearing she’s bought a gun. Gilbert dismisses the thought, but as it turns out, his friend was right.
* SpoiledBrat: Dominique is stated to have been pampered as a child. As a result, she’s pretty childish and threatens to commit suicide every time she doesn’t get her way.
