Truffaut's comment.


Apparently Truffaut walked out of a Cannes screening of Pather Panchali saying he didn’t want to watch "a bunch of peasants eating with their hands". I like Truffaut's work, but what a dickhead.

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Truffaut was from a firmly working class background, open minded in regards to an extensive range of foreign cinemas and made a variety of films in the mode of the neo-realist (and was a fan in particular of De Sica). I strongly doubt that quote is legitimate. I have looked it up and although it appears in a variety of places I see no ACTUAL source of this and see no reason to believe it in that case. Seems totally at odds with everything else I know of Truffaut and sounds bogus to me.

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