François Truffaut goes deep and morbid adapting a Henry James story about a man who chooses to ‘devote himself to his beloved dead.’ He builds an altar-shrine to a departed bride and comrades that didn’t survive the Great War. A sympathetic woman considers aiding him, but his obsession keeps choosing life-negating directions. It’s a weird, morbid but highly understandable tale from the edge of the fantastic. The cinematographer is Néstor Almendros; the film is part of a 4-title François Truffaut Collection.
The Green Room
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
Part of Kino’s François Truffaut Collection, with The Wild Child, Small Change and The Man Who Loved Women
1978 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date February 14, 2023 / La chanbre verte, The Vanishing Fiancée / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dast´, Patrick Maléon, Jeanne Lobre, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Serge Rousseau, Annie Miller, Nathan Miller, Marcel Berbert.
Cinematography:...
The Green Room
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
Part of Kino’s François Truffaut Collection, with The Wild Child, Small Change and The Man Who Loved Women
1978 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date February 14, 2023 / La chanbre verte, The Vanishing Fiancée / available through Kino Lorber / 59.95
Starring: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dast´, Patrick Maléon, Jeanne Lobre, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Serge Rousseau, Annie Miller, Nathan Miller, Marcel Berbert.
Cinematography:...
- 2/25/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
One of the key Cahiers du Cinéma critics, and co-author (with Claude Chabrol) of the first important book on his fellow Catholic Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer was nearly 50 and the Nouvelle Vague had hit the shores and retreated by the time My Night with Maud, now re-released to mark his recent death, brought him serious international attention. But he was to go the distance, working well into his 80s to produce one of the largest, most varied but stylistically and thematically coherent oeuvres in the history of cinema.
The third of his cycle of "Six Moral Tales", though the fourth to be made, My Night with Maud divided audiences on the opening night of the 1969 London film festival. Some were delighted by its wit, intelligence and physical beauty, others bored to distraction by its Gallic discussions on religion, philosophy, politics and love between a divorced doctor (the stunning Françoise Fabian), a...
The third of his cycle of "Six Moral Tales", though the fourth to be made, My Night with Maud divided audiences on the opening night of the 1969 London film festival. Some were delighted by its wit, intelligence and physical beauty, others bored to distraction by its Gallic discussions on religion, philosophy, politics and love between a divorced doctor (the stunning Françoise Fabian), a...
- 7/24/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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