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Movie Description
A haunting, brooding film about a man who, after the death of his bride, builds a secret shrine to the dead. A beautiful stranger enters the scene and his private world is threatened.
Synopsis
François Truffaut directed and co-wrote this loose adaptation of Henry James's story, "The Altar of the Dead", about a man so trapped in the past that he has pushed life and love aside.
Julien Davenne has never recovered from the death of his beloved wife, so he carefully arranges a special room devoted to her memory. In it he keeps all the photos and objects that belonged to her, and there he sits for hours, drinking in her presence and gazing at her portrait.
Gradually, his obsession with his lost love grows into a larger desire to honor all the dead who have meant something to him -- other friends and relatives, as well as artists who have touched him. He's helped along in this endeavor by the shy and graceful Cécilia, an antiques dealer who helped him recover a ring that was once in his wife's family.
Together they create an altar of astonishing beauty and magic...
Film Notes
Among the people whose photos can be glimpsed in Davenne's "altar to the dead" are Henry James, whose short story inspired the film, and André Bazin, the famous French critic who served as Truffaut's surrogate father -- and father to the French "Nouvelle Vague".
Industry Reviews
"...THE GREEN ROOM is not a movie you'll easily forget. It is a most demanding, original work..."
New York Times - Vincent Canby (09/14/1979)
"The sombre images were the work of Nestor Almendros at his finest, and it's the most austere of Truffaut's films -- almost Bressonian, in fact."
Sight and Sound - David Thompson (02/01/2008)
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