Movies And Wives Poem by gershon hepner

“Movies tend to be far more harmonious, ”
said François Truffaut, “than one's life.”
Whether that's correct or quite erroneous
depends a lot upon one's wife.

No movie ever suffered from a traffic jam,
or dead spots like in marriages;
life's harder, for you cannot ham
behind the wheel in horseless carriages.


Michiko Kakutani reviews a book on François Truffaut by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana, 'Truffaut' (Knopf) ('The Shy, Conflicted Man Who Loved the Movies, ' The New York Times, April 20,1999) . She says that in 'Day for Night, ' Truffaut's movie about making movies, the director, played by Truffaut, turns to his young protégé and says: 'Movies are more harmonious than life. There are no traffic jams in movies, no dead spots.'



© 1999 Gershon Hepner 4/21/99