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French Sci-Fi: La Vague Technee

Fahrenheit 451

Francois TRUFFAUT

UK1966 112min 35mm color

Synopsis

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants.

Diretor

Francois TRUFFAUT

In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic. In 1959, the huge success of his first full-length film The 400 Blows was the beginning of the New Wave, a new way of making movies in France. From 1959 until his death, Francois Truffaut's life and films are mixed up.