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Truffaut film festival in city

Staff Reporter

The festival is on from September 3 to 7

CHENNAI: The French Embassy, New Delhi, Alliance Francaise of Madras and the Madras Film Society are jointly organising a festival of French Films directed by popular French director Francois Truffaut from September 3 to 7 at South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce auditorium.

A sneak preview of the fare that will feature at the festival:

"The Last Metro" — A movie set entirely in a crumbling French theatre. The film is one of the few to accurately capture the feeling of what it was like to live in Paris under the Nazis.

"The 400 Blows" — The director drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood.

The film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Originally intended as a 20-minute short film, it was expanded into a feature when Truffaut decided to elaborate on his self-analysis. The film won the 1959 Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Bed and Board" — The film is the fourth instalment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series.

It is a romantic comedy, which shows how Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) settled down with Christine (Claude Jade), his girlfriend from the previous film Baisers volés.

"Love On the Run" — It is the fifth and final Antoine Doniel series. It is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past.

It is an interesting film with various twists and turns of Antoine at 30.

"The Woman Next Door" — François Truffaut's continues his fascination in the film with obsessive love.

It was also his first collaboration with Fanny Ardant, who would become his favoured leading lady for the last phase of his career and off screen love for the last years of his life.

"Two English Girls" — The story of a romantic triangle based on novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Disappointed by the mild reception that greeted the original version of the film, Truffaut determined to restore over 20 minutes of footage to the film, a project he completed just before he died in 1984.

"The Soft Skin" — It is a simple tale of revenge and adultery, which features an exceptional musical score by Georges Delerue. The story is about a love affair between magazine editor Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) and an alluring airline stewardess, Nicole Chomette (Francoise Dorleac).

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