Francois Truffaut's testimony of obsession, THE GREEN ROOM, is perhaps the most unheralded film of his career, and surely one of his most personal.
Truffaut himself plays Julien Davenne, a secretive man who excels at writing obituaries for a fading journal and who's stubbornly obsessed with death, believing that the deceased are not given the love and attention they deserve. His reverence is inspired both by his guilt over returning from WWI
unharmed, while everyone he knew was killed or injured, and by the sudden death of his newlywed wife. In her memory, he constructs a shrine, complete with a frightening, life-size wax figurine. At the cemetary where she's bu...
Released:
1978
Rated:
PG
Length:
94 mins