In 1962, François
Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock met and for a week, the two iconic filmmakers
delved into the secrets of the mise-en-scène, i.e. the arrangement of all the
elements that will determine how a particular scene will look and feel like, meaning
the placement of the actors, the camera placement, the lighting, the décor,
etc. Taped and printed, Hitchcock/Truffaut became one of the seminal books for
film students and lovers across the world.
Now, with Hitchcock/Truffaut,
documentarian Kent Jones tries to through a series of interviews with such
filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, and Wes
Anderson, illustrate the greatest cinema lesson of all time.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
opens on December 2nd.
In 1962 Hitchcock and
Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets
behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this
meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut—this film
illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the
world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly
modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers: Martin
Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson,
James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul
Schrader.
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