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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

Documentary

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

Release Date: 1993, May 14
Directors: Serge Toubiana, Michel Pascal
Countries: France
Production: Chrysalide Films
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fanny Ardant, Catherine Deneuve, Marie-France Pisier

Overview:

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.