The Soft Skin
La Peau douce
The Eternal Triangle At Its Most Eternal.
Overview
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
- Revenue
- $62,261
- Production
- Les Films du Carrosse, Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Simar Films, Produções Cunha Telles
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Cast
Françoise Dorléac
Nicole
Jean Desailly
Pierre Lachenay
Nelly Benedetti
Franca Lachenay
Daniel Ceccaldi
Clément
Laurence Badie
Ingrid
Philippe Dumat
Directeur Cinéma Reims
Maurice Garrel
Bontemps
Sabine Haudepin
Sabine Lachenay
Dominique Lacarrière
La Secrétaire Dominique
Jean Lanier
Michel
Pierre Risch
Chanoine
Maurice Magalon
Catherine-Isabelle Duport
Jeune Fille Reims (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Richard
Man in Street (uncredited)
François Truffaut
Le Pompiste (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- François Truffaut
- Producers
- António da Cunha Telles,François Truffaut
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Composer
- Georges Delerue
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CRCulver
July 25, 2018
Paris's then-brand-new Orly airport and the still novel phenomenon of air travel form the backdrop for Francois Truffaut's 1964 feature LA PEAU DOUCE ("The Soft Skin"). Pierre (Jean Desailly) is a French publisher who has established an enviable successful bourgeois life and home, married to Italian wife Franca (Nelly Benedetti) and with a little girl. But on a trip to Portugal for a conference, Pierre gives into a fling with his stewardess Nicole (Françoise Dorléac). They struggle to keep their…
CinemaSerf
January 26, 2026
Successful and ostensibly happily married “Pierre” (Jean Desailly) is flying to Lisbon to give a lecture on Balzac when the stewardess “Nicole” (Françoise Dorléac) catches his eye. It turns out that she is staying in the same hotel as him, and so after a trip up in the lift with her - that seems to take forever - he decides to call her from his room and ask her to meet for a drink. After a bit of toing and froing, and despite the fact that he was supposed to be returning to Paris at noon the nex…