Popular Truffaut movie goes down easy - I think everyone likes this, especially film people. Full of touches like Truffaut playing a director and Jacqueline Bisset as a movie star, and the composer playing himself and the director receiving parcels of movie books.
Like a lot of Truffaut it ambles along. The death of a key character is described off screen. The movie they're making seems terrible.
I enjoyed how Truffaut's director character didn't really care about anything except finishing the film - if people had breakdowns he shrugs them off. I feel in real life Truffaut would be more of a sex pest but the character he plays here is accurate.
Nathalie Baye as a crew member gets all these close ups and action towards the end of the film. It's endearing in a way. Bisset is great value, brings star commitment. Her hair in the fake movie is terrible but she looks great in "real life".
I missed Valentina Cortese's drunken diva and Alexandra Stewart's pregnant star - they were lots of fun, I felt both need another beat. Jean Pierra Leaud's annoyingness suits his character.
It's fun.
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