The Green Room/La Chambre Verte Julien Davenne (played by Francois Truffaut himself) is a man haunted by his past. The film picks up his story just after the first world war, which he survived, but which claimed many of his friends. Davenne is crippled by survivor guilt, and is dealt a further blow when his wife dies young. Unable to overcome these cruel blows of fate and to pick up his life and start anew, Davenne devotes his life to commemorating the memory of "his dead" as he calls them. His is a tragic failure of the mourning process,... more info
