ln 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut locked themseIves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the originaI recordings of this meeting - used to produce the mythicaI book Hitchcock/Truffaut - this film illustrates the greatest cinema Iesson of alI time and pIummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock s incredibIy modern art is elucidated and expIained by today s leading fiImmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, OIivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and PauI Schrader. |