François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits(1993)

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits Synopsis

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993) is a documentary film directed by Michel Pascal, released on May 14, 1993 with a runtime of 1h 28m. It stars François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Olivier Assayas and Claude Chabrol. Viewers rate it 5.6 out of 10 across 8 ratings.