AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’

Eighteen years after his last film (The Troubles We’ve Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime), Marcel Ophuls comes back as one of the last cinema masters – the most causticas well as the funniest. The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares his memories with us, stories incredibly rich and fascinating, which make Ain’t Misbehavin’ a cheerful and bittersweet trip though the 20th century and cinema itself. Son of the great Max Ophuls, Marcel is generous with his feelings of admiration. And so we meet Jeanne Moreau, Bertold Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanlely Kubrick and, of course, his friend Francois Truffaut. There’s no such thing as a great filmmaker with no memories; here then is Marcel Ophuls’s “memorabilia store.”