The Green Room [Le Chambre Verte]

N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Cropping annotations in manuscript ink, "La Chambre Verte" stamp, and "June 78" stamp, all on verso.

Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James, with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle," and his 1896 short story "The Way it Came."

One of Truffaut's least successful films, but also one of his most personal and critically acclaimed, a meditation on death and on an individual's inability to live in the face of it. Truffaut stars as Julien Davenne, a journalist who writes obituaries in an unfashionable journal, obsesses about the loss of his wife Julie and those members of his WWI squad lost in the war, which lead him to build a shrine as a memorial so that they may never be forgotten. The third and final film which Truffaut would both direct and star.

Shot on location in Calvados and Eure, France.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #150552]