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The film tells a story about a fireman who is in charge of burning the book to prevent everybody from reading forbidden information. Suddenly, He confronts a teacher daring to read. He seems to be stuck in relationship between two women, between safety and freedom.
With a serious and even terrifying theme, this excursion into science fiction has been thoughtfully directed by Francois Truffaut and there is adequate evidence of light touches to bring welcome and needed relief to a sombre and scarifying subject.
While not one of Truffaut's strongest film, it is nonetheless one of his few explicitly political works and also boasts sharp imagery by Roeg) and indelible score by Herrmann.
This 1966 film often looks good (it was Truffaut's first in color, photographed by Nicolas Roeg), but the ideas, such as they are, get lost in the meandering narrative.
Truffaut's movie clearly suffered from a troubled shoot - Truffaut didn't actually know English - so his oddball take on the material succeeds in only fits and bursts.
Holy smoke! What a pretentious and pedantic production he has made.
May 20, 2003
Cinema em Cena
É trágico constatar que a visão de Bradbury vem tornando-se cada vez mais real: a diferença é que, em vez de queimados, os livros vêm sendo simplesmente ignorados.
April 17, 2005
CinePassion
Truffaut faces Bradbury's abstractions head on, not as science-fiction but as humanistic fairy-tale
Even at the science-fiction horror-story level, the movie fails -- partly, I think, because Truffaut is too much of an artist to exploit the vulgar possibilities in the material.