The Green Room (1978)
- Original title
- La Chambre verte
- Directed by
- François Truffaut
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 88 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man becomes consumed by a need to honor the dead people he has known. He creates a private shrine and marries a woman who shares his devotion.
melancholichauntingreverentslow-pacedintrospectivesomberdevotionalobsessivequiet
What happens
The Green Room (French: La Chambre verte, pronounced [la ʃɑ̃bʁ vɛʁt]) is a 1978 French historical drama film directed by and starring François Truffaut, based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James, in which a man becomes obsessed with the dead people in his life and builds a memorial to them. It is also based on two other works by James: the 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle and the 1896 short story "The Way It Came". It was Truffaut's seventeenth feature film as a director and the third and last of his own films in which he acted in a leading role. It stars Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté and Patrick Maléon. Truffaut spent several years working on the film's script and felt a special connection to the theme of honouring and remembering the dead. In the film, he included portraits of people from his own life at the main character's "Altar of the Dead". The Green Room was one of Truffaut's most praised films, and also one of his least successful financially. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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