Section Section Description Page Number
Preface p. ix
Part 1 Public Affairs, 1934
Prelude p. 3
Part 2 Angels of Sin, 1943
It Takes an Auteur p. 9
Jean Giraudoux p. 13
Part 3 Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, 1945
Scandals and Shocks p. 19
Inferiority Leads the Way p. 23
Jean Cocteau p. 25
The Festival du Film Maudit p. 27
Part 4 Diary of a Country Priest, 1951
Between These Two Worlds p. 31
It''s the Impossibility That Attracts Me p. 33
To See and To Hear p. 37
As I Would Write a Poem p. 41
Part 5 A Man Escaped, 1956
The Wind Blows Where It Wants To p. 47
A New Means of Expression p. 55
Part 6 Pickpocket, 1959
A Film Made of Hands, Objects, and Glances p. 59
A Film''s Rhythm Should Be Like the Beating of a Heart p. 63
To Capture Only What Is Real p. 69
To Get to the Mystery p. 73
Poetry and Truth Are Sisters p. 81
Part 7 The Trial of Joan of Arc, 1962
This Familiarity with the Palpably Supernatural p. 87
I Know of Nothing More Atrocious or More Poignant p. 93
It''s What the Film Wanted p. 95
Emotion Should Be Our Only Guide p. 101
Joan of Arc Was Beautiful, Elegant, Approachable, Modern p. 107
To Make Her Real, To Bring Her Close p. 115
If You Want the Current to Flow, You Have to Strip the Wires p. 119
Part 8 Adaptation
Aspects of Dramatic Creation p. 125
Part 9 Au Hasard Balthazar, 1966
A Donkey in All Its Purity, Its Tranquility, Its Serenity, Its Sanctity p. 133
The Freest Film I''ve Made, the One to Which I''ve Given the Most of Myself p. 139
To Create Life Without Copying It p. 159
The Beaten Path p. 173
Part 10 Mouchette, 1967
More in the Manner of Portraitists p. 185
Something Else I Like in Bernanos: His Supernatural Is Constructed from the Real p. 189
Looks That Kill p. 193
Part 11 The Sound Track
The Ear Is Far More Creative Than the Eye p. 199
Part 12 A Gentle Woman, 1969
The Confrontation Between Death and Life p. 205
I Am Here, tire Other Is Elsewhere, and the Silence Is Terrible p. 209
Part 13 Four Nights of a Dreamer, 1972
Art Is Not a Luxury, But a Vital Need p. 217
Between Blue and Brown p. 221
I Look for Surprises p. 227
Part 14 Lancelot of the Lake, 1974
To Bring the Past into the Present p. 233
It Was Lancelot''s Very Particular Inner Adventure That I Found Striking p. 237
Torn Between Fidelity and Felony p. 239
The Sound of Iron p. 243
The Grail p. 247
Part 15 Notes on the Cinematograph, 1975
You Strip Your Art Naked p. 253
Part 16 The Devil, Probably, 1977
The Adversary p. 263
The Gaps Are Where the Poetry Slips In p. 267
Part 17 L''Argent, 1983
O Money, Visible God! p. 273
The Cinema Is Immense, We Haven''t Done a Thing p. 279
Image Credits p. 285
