François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits Poster

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits 1993

★ 5.17 votes88 min📅 1993-05-14

"Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut."

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 ca

Director: Michel Pascal

Cast

François Truffaut
François Truffaut
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Self (archive footage)
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas
Self
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls
Self (archive footage)
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
Self
Alexandre Astruc
Alexandre Astruc
Self
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier
Self
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Self (archive footage)
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Ardant
Self