The Green Room

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The Green Room ★★ La Chambre Verte 1978 (PG)

Truffaut's haunting tale of a man who, valuing death over life, erects a shrine to all the dead he has known. Offered a chance at love, he cannot overcome his obsessions to take the risk. Based on the Henry James story “Altar of the Dead.” In French with subtitles. 95m/C VHS . FR Antoine Vitez, Jane Lobre, Marcel Berbert, Francois Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Daste; D: Francois Truffaut; W: Jean Gruault; C: Nestor Almendros; M: Maurice Jaubert.