Keywords

• Several films of high artistic quality have dealt with the practice of writing. Therefore
• studying the diverse meanings writing takes on in a variety of movies
• in relation to the different representations various film authors gave of it
• may lead to very interesting reflections. In some cases writing becomes central to the very texture of films
• as in the works by the French director François Truffaut. The meaning of writing is enhanced through the very strength of the language of cinema
• which helps get a deeper insight into the sense of this human practice