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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
May 14, 1993 · 1h 28m
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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.

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CAST

François Truffaut
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Self (archive footage)
Olivier Assayas
Self
Claude Chabrol
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Ophüls
Self (archive footage)
Éric Rohmer
Self
Alexandre Astruc
Self
Bertrand Tavernier
Self
Directed by Michel Pascal

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Original language
FR
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Chrysalide Films
Country
FR
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