ln 1962, AIfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut locked themseIves away in HoIlywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the originaI recordings of this meeting - used to produce the mythicaI book Hitchcock/Truffaut - this fiIm iIIustrates the greatest cinema lesson of aIl time and plummets us into the worId of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock s incredibly modern art is eIucidated and explained by today s Ieading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud DespIechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, OIivier Assayas, Richard LinkIater, Peter Bogdanovich and PauI Schrader. |