"The Green Room"
1978
Directed by Francois Truffaut

Based on Henry James' The Altar of the Dead, Truffaut's The Green Room stars the director himself as a journalist obsessed with death. Living and working next to shrines dedicated to his late wife and fallen comrades, he cannot emerge from his living death, even after the promise of new love comes his way. "...a devastating portrait of a man consumed by such profound grief that he is incapable of experiencing the beauty and joy of life" (Strictly Film School). Also starring Nathalie Baye. French with English subtitles. 94 minutes.

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