François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993)

★ 5.1 1h 28m IMDb

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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François Truffaut
François Truffaut as Self (archive footage) Died 1984 · Paris, France François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a...
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud as Self (archive footage) Age 81 · Paris, France Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also...
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas as Self Age 71 · Paris, France Olivier Assayas (French: [ɔlivje asajas]; born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his eclectic filmography, consisting of slow-burning perio...
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol as Self (archive footage) Died 2010 · Paris, France Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s....
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls as Self (archive footage) Died 2025 · Frankfurt am Main, Germany Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) was a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Ti...
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer as Self Died 2010 · Tulle, Corrèze, France Éric Rohmer (March 21, 1920 – January 11, 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former edito...

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