After I saw Truffaut's Two English Women, I thought that was the saddest film I have ever seen. But the list was rewritten after I saw The Green Room. Of course, before getting in touch with all those New Wave films, the saddest film for me was Titanic. I have watched Titanic for 26 times, and everytime, I still cried my heart out, although I know how melodramatic it is. However, I never thought sadness could be so deep without making you cry a single tear.Truffaut's sadness is unique: it does not make you cry; I bet anyone would shed a tear at his films--yet it sticks to you forever, keeping you in that nostalgic and gloomy state for your whole life.
The Green Room is a film about obssession and fetishism, which tells a story about a man who cannot let go of his dead wife, and does everything he could to remember her. Truffaut's character Julien is so angry with the society where p…
