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In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex
riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws
audiences to theaters? Francois Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or
Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally
Truffaut follows the coded inscription of major life events in his
films from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and doomed
relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book focuses first on the
process that embeds experience into fictions, and more specifically
into visual forms and patterns. It also tries to define the mode of
perception film language triggers in the spectator. When entering a
movie theater, we expect perceptual pleasure. Truffaut's creative
work is devoted to distilling this drug to audiences, an ambition
central to the evolution of his style. These two issues are closely
connected and Totally Truffaut follows, film after film, their
crisscrossing paths. It also highlights the essential role several
great actresses-Jeanne Moreau, Francoise Dorleac, Isabelle Adjani,
Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the
creation of the films.
Between 1959 and 1984, French film director Francois Truffaut was
interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers
critical insight into the genesis of Truffaut's films as he shares
the sources of his inspiration, the choice of his themes, and the
development of his screenplays. In addition, Truffaut discusses his
relationships with collaborators, actors, and the circumstances
surrounding the shooting of each film. These texts, originally
assembled by Anne Gillain and published in French in 1988, are
presented here in a montage arranged chronologically by film. This
compilation includes an impressive array of reflections on cinema
as an art form. Truffaut defines the aims and practices of the
French New Wave, comparing their efforts to the films made by their
predecessors and including comments that encompass the entire
history of cinema. Truffaut on Cinema provides commentary on
contemporary events, a wealth of biographical information, and
Truffaut's own artistic itinerary.
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Truffaut on Cinema (Hardcover)
Anne Gillain; Translated by Alistair Fox
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Between 1959 and 1984, French film director Francois Truffaut was
interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers
critical insight into the genesis of Truffaut's films as he shares
the sources of his inspiration, the choice of his themes, and the
development of his screenplays. In addition, Truffaut discusses his
relationships with collaborators, actors, and the circumstances
surrounding the shooting of each film. These texts, originally
assembled by Anne Gillain and published in French in 1988, are
presented here in a montage arranged chronologically by film. This
compilation includes an impressive array of reflections on cinema
as an art form. Truffaut defines the aims and practices of the
French New Wave, comparing their efforts to the films made by their
predecessors and including comments that encompass the entire
history of cinema. Truffaut on Cinema provides commentary on
contemporary events, a wealth of biographical information, and
Truffaut's own artistic itinerary.
For Francois Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in
the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies
through cinematic representation. Available in English for the
first time, Anne Gillain's Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret is
considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of
Truffaut's films. Taking a psycho-biographical approach, Gillain
shows how Truffaut's creative impulse was anchored in his personal
experience of a traumatic childhood that left him lonely and
emotionally deprived. In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of
each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories
arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of
motifs that are repeated from film to film, but also govern every
aspect of his mise en scene and cinematic technique."
For Francois Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in
the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies
through cinematic representation. Available in English for the
first time, Anne Gillain's Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret is
considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of
Truffaut's films. Taking a psycho-biographical approach, Gillain
shows how Truffaut's creative impulse was anchored in his personal
experience of a traumatic childhood that left him lonely and
emotionally deprived. In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of
each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories
arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of
motifs that are repeated from film to film, but also govern every
aspect of his mise en scene and cinematic technique."
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