Nope, this has nothing in common with neo-nazis, white supremacy, or anticipating the rise of Trump. That would be GREEN ROOM (2015), another film everyone should watch and then read this. 

*THE* GREEN ROOM (1978), on the other hand, a somber, sickly-hued story about honoring the dead, is Truffaut's homage to the auteur theory that revels in the stink of Dracula and the ghostly mood of Edgar Allen Poe. The visual scheme is supernatural in nature, teeming with candles, mirrors, deep greens and dark stairways, together forming a memorial to the buried. The tale is more existential than spookish though, centering on Julien, a man haunted by personal loss and enduring grief, who now lives to honor the dead and who surrounds himself with talismans of their memory. 

"As long as they are remembered," he says, "they remain alive." For Julien, remembering those who came before is an act of healing and closure, and for Truffaut, an act of embalming his heroes in celluloid. Julien's shrine, in fact, is covered with photographs of Truffaut's idols, featuring Oscar Wilde, Henry James, André Bazin, Honoré de Balzac, Jeanne Moreau, and others, pointing to the many artists, books, movies and music he adored and took inspiration from. The bombed ruins of an abandoned chapel filled with dead icons thus becomes a living tribute, not just for every artist who was once important to Julien/Truffaut, but also to every artist who continues to wield influence and live on in the next generation, and so on ad infinitum. Truffaut made a touching, cerebral ghost story not just about cinematic artists, but artists that range in all colors, shapes and sizes that belong to the human family.

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