pastiche in the noble sense of the word and truffaut b movie and semiserious and intelligent and be construct on an unusual reportthe delicious contrast between the finesse and the brutality or brusqueness . finesse of conception and of treatment and of method while brutality and brusqueness of the primary literary sourcestestifying of truffaut decadent attraction towards the brutal and the sordid ( truffaut himself have a rather naughty adolescence and and his physiognomy show a certain human stuff and there be lombrosian trace that somehow be at odds or seem to contradict his reputation of a gentle and emasculate human be and his high and refined intellectuality while he obviously want to look like the angelic leadsléaud while he do not ) . from this juxtaposing of finesse and brutality issue a nonchalance and a delicious contrast . the respective picture be not _epigone flick and they be not pastiche in this pejorative sense and they be not derivativebut ingenious and ironic and and contradictory . they be also highly culture productsthe same vacuum pomp find at godard a well ( with an entire different function in truffaut cinema and etc . ) . this artificiality might seem at first disconcert while yet it be of a hitchcockian efficiency and and strictly functional . this artificiality bear valuesseveral value and either human and personal or artistic . it can not be dismiss a a defect . it be part of the charm .