Amazon.com Based on two short stories by Henry James, The Green Room has a few Gothic overtones that are quickly supplanted by director François Truffaut’s occasional predilection toward personal scrutiny as a filmmaker. Truffaut himself (as he did in The Wild Child) stars in the central role of a 1920s provincial journalist whose virtual solitude as a widower and father of a deaf-mute child exacerbates his unrelieved grief over the death of his wife and the loss of many friends duri…