Goobye Monkey – Last Year in Paris (not at Marienbad)

Parade 2005 Monkey Year
On Feb. 9 2005, Monkey gives away to Rooster according to Chinese astrology. Last year in Paris a spectacular parade was staged in the style of Zhang Yimou . Click here. to see all the photos, they are breathtaking.

Francois Truffaut was born on Feb 6 1932, the year of Monkey (Sun & Moon in Aquarius, same as Jeanne Moreau, Colette, Olivier Assayas, Joan Mitchell) Joan M. was the only American from this group, however she married a Frenchman and lived in France.
Does this describe Francois Truffaut?
Two overlooked film classics by Truffaut are Two English Girls and the Wild Child.
Two English Girls was adapted from Henri Pierre Roche’s novel but Truffaut changed the ending by killing off the emancipated sculptress. The Insdorf biography quoted Truffaut as saying that he was influenced by Emily Bronte’s early death. Here is another explanation from the article by Bob Wake. “Pauline Kael, in her 1971 review of Two English Girls, suggested a more startling impulse behind Truffaut’s decision: Muriel and Anne had come to be painfully associated in the director’s mind with two real-life sisters—the actresses Françoise Dorléac and Catherine Deneuve—with whom Truffaut had worked and with whom he had love affairs. Dorléac died in an automobile…”
Truffaut was adopted by Andre Bazin who founded Cahiers du Cinema. 400 Blows was dedicated to Andre Bazin and “The Wild Child” was dedicated to Jean Piere Leaud.
“The progression from Bazin/Truffaut to Truffaut/Leaud, symbolized by Itard/Victor (characters from the Wild Child), tells a story of love through work ties rather than blood ties, or the power of adaptation through adoption.” (excerpted from Francois Truffaut by Annette Insdorf -pg182).
More on Truffaut’s childhood included in France, Childhood and
Genius. Here.