An Italian, born in Palermo, he brought to Hollywood the secrets of the commedia into the deepest dimensions of desperate human situations (I have often wept during the tragic moments of Capra’s comedies) before he reestablished a balance and brought off the miracle that let us leave the theater with a renewed confidence of life.

– François Truffaut

Spot on Truffaut. Spot on.

Truffaut called Capra “the good doctor”.

Tonight, whether you watch It’s a Wonderful Life, or You Can’t Take it With You, you will leave your sofa (or even better, the theater) heartbroken. Heartbroken but encouraged.

It’s what Frank Capra does.

Merry Christmas Eve.

As read from François Truffaut’s essay Frank Capara, The Healer.

Truffaut, F. (1978). The Films in My Life. United Kingdom: Simon and Schuster. pg69