François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

1993·88'

★ 5.6

Letterboxd TMDB #128743

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

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

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

Jeanne Moreau Self (archive footage)

Fanny Ardant Self

Catherine Deneuve Self (archive footage)

Nathalie Baye Self