Imaginary Conversations #1 : The Green Room 1978 Directed and Written by François Truffaut

(before I talk about death, I’d like to say that “Truffaut” sounds like some delicious French dessert.)

- This movie is the third and last film where Truffaut appears as the main character. At the end of the film he dies in an altar dedicated to his dead friends.
- There was a picture of Oscar Wilde and Cocteau in the chapel, his symbolic death on screen means that he wants to join these great artists that are held in the collective memory of culture.
-He never finished his 30 films.
- The best way to love the dead, is to keep their memory alive.
- The living select the dead.
- Imagine if a memorial was built for all the dead, the last person on earth won’t be remembered right?
- I think the living feel guilty because they have survived death, that’s why they remember the dead.
- Memorials are made so that the living could feel sorry for themselves.