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Fahrenheit 451
Truffaut’s imaginative adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel about a society where books are banned.
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Director
François Truffaut
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With
Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
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UK 1966. 112min
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Digital
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Certificate
12A
Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel about a society where books are banned eschews the original’s sci-fi elements to focus on a fireman (Werner) employed to search out and burn hidden books; his curiosity about literature is stimulated when he meets a woman (Christie) who resembles his TV-addicted wife. Cinematographer Nicolas Roeg’s use of colour renders the familiar near-future world unsettlingly strange.
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