Truffaut's effusive and somewhat bullying attempt to propose a toast, with which all film lovers are expected to concur, to the charming and intrepid and fallible folks who join together temporarily, strive for the heights, slip and slide somewhat, and ultimately create a little magic for the millions (what is known, prosaically, as a movie). Truffaut's youthful, movie-fan enthusiasm is resurrected here in the form of agitated hand-held camerawork, obligatory tributes to his deities ("Ah, the books I ordered," he exclaims, digging into a pile of texts on Hawks, Hitchcock, Lubitsch, Bresson, etc.), and naive miscalculations (a silly dream scene in which the film director, played by Truffaut himself, is tormented by nightmare voices: "You have to finish in seven weeks... Why don't you make political films?... Erotic films?"). With Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Valentina Cortese, and Jean-Pierrre Aumont. (1973) — Duncan Shepherd
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