La chambre verte (1978)

Top comments

1. 

   ClassicLady

   Excellent! Loved it. The sense of loss, missed opportunities and regret are portrayed so well. Wonderfully acted. 10 years 9 months ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Once upon a time, Henry James put an idea in François Truffaut's head and the result was La chambre verte (The Green Room), a dry, intellectual piece about a man morbidly obsessed with the dead after the First World War and the death of his young wife. Truffaut plays the man himself and his adequate acting is up to the challenge of representing a cold, distant man who mostly shuns the living (even if one wonders what a stronger actor could have done with the part, his lifelessness is kind of the point). Nathalie Baye, playing his impossible romantic interest, is much more lively and sympathetic, though I feel like her part is comparatively underwritten. Par for the course when the lead is in almost constant dissertation mode - in fact, the language of all the characters sounds very "written", which is why a performance is necessary to make things come alive - but she never gets to explain herself AS well. This was the director's biggest failure, but it's still interesting as a philosophical drama about death, grief, remembrance, letting go, and moving forward. 4 years 10 months ago
3. 

   nicolaskrizan

   Remembrance – blessing or burden? Heartfelt, literally morbid, not in the book.
   
   https://beyond1001movies.wordpress.com/ 8 years 2 months ago

See all comments

Friends

Login to see which of your friends have seen this movie!