![]() Given Truffaut’s erudition and his experience as a film director, it becomes a fascinating, albeit slightly one-sided, conversation. Recurrent throughout the book is Hitchcock’s concern for the audience and his comments on how and why an audience will be affected by a particular element of a film. Whereas other filmmakers create films with suspense highlights, Hitchcock seeks to imbue every scene with suspense – attempts to leave no gaps and so produce a continuous heightened cinematic experience.įor Truffaut, the art of creating suspense is the art of involving the audience. the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations” Truffaut then expounds a defence of suspense – seeking to place it it outside mere melodrama and defining it as “simply the dramatisation of a film’s narrative material. While, at the time, Hitchcock would have been recognised by the cinema cognoscenti for his technical mastery, Truffaut believes he doesn’t get his due because of the populist nature of Hitchcock’s cinema and specifically his working in what is seen as the minor mode of suspense. Truffaut seeks to place Hitchcock in his rightful place as a master, if not the master, of cinema direction. ![]() As a film critic with the influential magazine Cahiers du Cin éma, Truffaut had become seduced by Hitchcock's work and as he began to direct his own films came to see him as one of the greatest of film directors. This book contains transcripts of eight days of interviews conducted in 1962 between the French film director François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock. ![]()
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