Totally Truffaut: 23 Films for Understanding the Man and the Filmmaker

Totally Truffaut explores how experience is imprinted into films and what draws audiences to theaters, focusing on the process that embeds experience into fictions and the mode of perception film language triggers in the spectator. It also highlights the essential role of several great actresses in the creation of the films.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

In her book "Totally Truffaut," author Anne Gillain delves into two intricate puzzles: how films capture and convey experience, and what captivates audiences to the theater. François Truffaut, like his fellow filmmakers Fellini, Bergman, and Scorsese, drew upon his own life experiences, and "Totally Truffaut" explores the coded inscription of significant life events in his films, ranging from his illegitimate birth to his passionate and tragic relationship with Catherine Deneuve. The book primarily focuses on the process by which experience is embedded into fiction, particularly in visual forms and patterns. It also endeavors to define the mode of perception that film language triggers in the spectator. As we step into a movie theater, we anticipate a sensory delight. Truffaut's artistic mission is to distill this euphoric experience for audiences, a central aspect of his evolving style. These two themes are interconnected, and "Totally Truffaut" follows their crisscrossing paths, film after film. It also highlights the indispensable roles played by several renowned actresses, including Jeanne Moreau, Françoise Dorléac, Isabelle Adjani, Jacqueline Bisset, Fanny Ardant, and Catherine Deneuve, in the creation of these films.

Weight: 488g
Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780197536315