The Green Room (1978): Cast, Box Office, Plot & Where to Watch

Julien Davenne, François Truffaut, is a war veteran who works as an editor at The Globe, a newspaper where he earns a living by shaping funeral announcements into prose that reads like elegies. Though the town is small, his mind roams far beyond headlines; he is a man haunted by the certainty of death, a true virtuoso of the obituary who sees each obituary as a doorway to memory. Set ten years after the First World War, the story follows his quiet, meticulously organized life in a house where the upper floor holds a room he has dedicated to worshipping his wife. Julie Davenne, Laurence Ragon, is long dead, having died eleven years earlier at the height of her beauty, and her memory dominates Julien’s days.