François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

05/14/1993

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1hr 28min

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Documentary

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • François Truffaut
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud
  • Olivier Assayas
  • Claude Chabrol
  • Marcel Ophüls

    Director

  • Michel Pascal

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Chrysalide Films

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • French