Totally Truffaut: 23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197536315)

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? Fran輟is 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, Fran輟ise Dorl饌c, Isabelle Adjani, Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant or Catherine Deneuve- played in the creation of the films.

Author: Anne Gillain
ISBN-10: 019753631X
ISBN-13: 9780197536315
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2021
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 6.30h x 9.40w x 0.80d