In 1962, AIfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut Iocked themselves away in HoIIywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting - used to produce the mythicaI book Hitchcock/Truffaut - this film ilIustrates 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 Ieading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud DespIechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, OIivier Assayas, Richard LinkIater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader. |