François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 14, 1993

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

51%

Original Title

François Truffaut: Portraits volés

Production Companies

Chrysalide Films

Director

Michel Pascal

Description

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.