jpJun 10
From Gothic terror to wartime refuge: Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera and François Truffaut’s The Last Metro mirror each other through a remarkable structural inversion. One theater hides a monster who wields power through invisibility; the other shelters the vulnerable from a monstrous regime.
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The Subterranean Stage: François Truffaut’s The Last Metro as a Structural Inversion of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux’s 1910 Gothic novel, Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), represents a seminal exploration of spatial terror, psychological obsession, and panoptic surveillance set…

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Andy AldridgeMar 1, 2025
I just watched Le Dernier Métro (François Truffaut, 1980) and rated it 7/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Metro?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #LeDernierMetro #FrancoisTruffaut #CatherineDeneuve #GerardDepardieu #JeanPoiret #TheLastMetro
The Last Metro - Wikipedia

Sim BarrFeb 1, 2023

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#Director #FrançoisTruffaut with #CatherineDeneuve + #GèrardDepardieu. #Nominated for #BestForeignLanguageFilm #Oscar

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Die letzte Metro (1980) - IMDb

Die letzte Metro: Directed by François Truffaut. With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol. In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

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