François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

May. 14,1993      
Rating:
7.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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