FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT: STOLEN PORTRAITS (1993)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
Documentary
May 14, 1993
French
1h 28m
France
Chrysalide Films

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.

Cast & Characters

François Truffaut

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Self (archive footage)

Claude Chabrol

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Ophüls

Self (archive footage)

Jeanne Moreau

Self (archive footage)

Catherine Deneuve

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Jean-Yves Le Mener

Director of Photography

Maurice Fellous

Director of Photography

Michel Sourioux

Director of Photography