I consider Truffaut's flawless 1970 The Wild Child as a parable for non-believers, over at The Auteurs' Notebook.
Something “Wild”
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I believe Hoberman compared Truffaut to Goddard as the difference between talent and genius, but I’ve always preferred Truffaut primarily because of his “workings of the heart”. After WEEKEND, with a few exceptions, I’m watching those movies and most of the time I don’t know what the fuck is going on. It seems sacrilege to say you don’t really care for Goddard, so I’ll read about the movies and rewatch them and but I still don’t get it. I truly feel like a philistine who needs cliff notes for everything he’s packing into his pictures. I can appreciate them on a filmic level, or intellectually, and I can appreciate what he’s done historically for the medium, but they still leave me cold. On the other hand, I can always revisit Truffaut, and am always finding things that surprise me in his movies.
Truffaut is God.
An interesting take on a great, great film.
Truffaut is my personal favorite New Waver, and a lot of that has to do with this film and Stolen Kisses, both of which I used to watch obsessively.
After reading this, I think I’m going to go watch it again…
Truffaut is 100% definitely not God!! So foolish of you to say.