The Green Room (film)

The Green Room French La chambre verte is a 1978 French film directed by Franois Truffaut and based on the Henry James short story, The Altar of the Dead, in which a man becomes obsessed with the dead people in his life and builds a memorial to them. It is also based on two other short stories by Henry James The Beast in the Jungle and The Way It Came. It was Truffauts seventeenth feature film as a director and the third and last of his own films in which he acted in a leading role. It starred Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dast and Patrick Malon.

The action takes place ten years after the end of World War I in a small town in France. The protagonist, Julien Davenne, is a war veteran who works as an editor at the newspaper, The Globe. He specializes in funeral announcements a virtuoso of the obituary, as defined by its editorin chief and the thought of death haunts him. Davenne has reserved a room for the worship of his wife, Julie, on the upper floor of the house he shares with his elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Rambaud, and Georges, a deafmute boy. His wife had died eleven years prior, at the height of her beauty.During a thunderstorm a fire destroys the green room, Davenne managing to save only pictures and portraits of his wife. On discovering an abandoned chapel in ruins, at the same cemetery where Julie is buried, Julien decides to consecrate it not only to his wife but to all the cemeterys dead, having reached that point in life where you know more dead than alive. The place is transformed into a forest of lighted candles, with photos of all the people he treasured in life. ........

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