Bitter Letter Of Truffaut to The Company Gaumont On L'Operating of / The Last M.

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Bitter Letter Of Truffaut to The Company Gaumont On L'Operating of / The Last M.:
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Bitter letter from Truffaut to the Gaumont company on the operation of the Last MetroBitter letter from Truffaut to the Gaumont company on the operation of the Last Metro

Document type : autograph letter

Number of documents: 1 - Number of pages: 3pp. - Size: Folio

Place : Without

Date : [23 February 1983, according to a note in pencil]

RECIPIENT : Denis Chabeau

State : Good

Autograph draft of a letter from François Truffaut, addressed to Denis Chabeau, at Gaumont. Stapled sheets. Deletions, additions and corrections.

Important letter on the commercial operation of the Last Metro.

“[…] I have never agreed with those who systematically denigrate Gaumont, but today I want to share my disappointment with you. The withdrawal of the "Last Metro" for fifteen months was done in agreement with you and following your advice. In the meantime, because of the change of administration at Television, I had to struggle incredibly to obtain the postponement of the passage of the film on the antenna to Christmas 83 (instead of Christmas 82). Now that the time has come to put "the Metro" back in theaters, I feel throughout the Gaumont house a deaf reluctance, a force of inertia comparable to that which one opposes to a maniac who is not dangerous but terribly annoying. . I tried in vain to have you on the telephone a few months ago and knowing your increased responsibilities, I gave up bothering you […]. Why did the Gaumont house secure the rights to the "Last Metro" for 10 years, if after 15 months of exploitation it considers that it is done with this film ? My calculation is that, if the new exploitation of the film totals one tenth of the first revenue, the operation will have been interesting for you and for me, comparable in volume to quite a few of your new films and therefore deserving the same attention. Is it utopian? […]. If I could have guessed that your house would be so embarrassed by this revival, I would have let the first exploitation continue, but the climate was then much easier and warmer between Gaumont and Les Films du Carrosse. [his production company]. I ask nothing but since it was with you that I had the best contacts in 1980 and 1981, it is to you, and to you alone, that I wanted to express my bitterness.

Black felt pen on onion paper with "François Truffaut" printed letterhead.Francois Truffaut (Paris, 1932/1984)French filmmaker, one of the founders of the New Wave.

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