Staying there is like having a walk-on part in a Truffaut film - with magnificent food at the end of each day's filming.

There will be other Truffaut films, but none that will ever be more intimate, more personal, more wrenching than this Green Room, altar of the dead.

The first Truffaut film I ever saw was '400 Blows,' and that had a huge impact on me.

A Truffaut film featuring a troubled child inevitably begs comparison to "The 400 Blows" (1959) and his other autobiographical films, in which the young director transformed his difficult youth into art.

In other words, why not just play a Jobim CD while watching a Truffaut film on video?

Coilette is a reference to the Truffaut film Antoine and Colette, which is also about a one-sided love story.

Seeing a large number of Truffaut films together after being away from his work for a while reveals a director quite different from the one who has taken shape in the critical imagination.

It was only briefly screened for friends and is the only Truffaut film that has never been available for public viewing since Truffaut was unhappy with it.

Then he began a discussion of Truffaut films including "Love at 20" (1962).

"Mes Petites Amoureuses" would initially seem to owe an unconscionable amount of its inspiration to the Truffaut films.