François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon
94 mins
1978
France
12A
French; French Sign Language; Latin
Yes
Digital
Part of the The Literary Truffaut Season
Truffaut adapts Henry James and plays the lead in a sombre but lyrical study of morbid marital devotion. Inspired by two short stories by Henry James, this centres on an obituarist (Truffaut) working for a provincial newspaper in the years after WWI; when he’s befriended by a young woman (Baye), she discovers he’s profoundly devoted to his late wife. A sombre, sensitive film about attitudes to death and the dead, this is another imaginative exploration of destructive obsession. - Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large, BFI Southbank
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