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His academic demeanor and quiet professionalism masked a childhood scarred by abandonment and anger, but the films of François Truffaut - from his auspicious debut with "The 400 Blows" in 1959 to ...
François Truffaut was a self-taught genius whose achievements belie his humble origins. He was born in Paris on the 6th February 1932 to an unmarried young woman, Jeanine de Monferrand, who was a secretary on the newspaper L'Illustration. He never met his biological father, although he later found out, through a private detective agency, that ...
Feb 6, 2015 · Gérard Depardieu reportedly resisted starring in The Last Metro (1980) because he thought director François Truffaut had gone bourgeois. The French director may no longer have been the fiery critic who had denounced ‘cinéma du papa’ in the pages of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s or even the fearless auteur who had been in the vanguard of the French New Wave.
François Truffaut. François Truffaut (n. 6 februarie 1932, Paris, Île-de-France, Franța – d. 21 octombrie 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, Franța) a fost un critic de cinema, regizor de film, scenarist și actor francez. Este unul din inițiatorii mișcării denumite Noul val francez .
François Truffaut - French New Wave, Film Critic, Director: After this burst of creativity, he seemed to have a period of hesitation. All of his later works, however, were intensely personal and explored one of two themes: studies in forlorn childhoods—e.g., the Doinel saga and L’Enfant sauvage (1970; The Wild Child), the chronicle of an 18th-century doctor who attempts to domesticate an ...
François Truffaut, (born Feb. 6, 1932, Paris, France—died Oct. 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris), French film director and critic. As a film critic for the avant-garde Cahiers du Cinéma, he advocated the auteur theory and helped establish the New Wave movement. His first feature film was the semi-autobiographical The 400 Blows (1959 ...
Francois Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave, and remains an icon of French cinema. In a career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was screenwriter, director, producer and actor in over twenty-five films. This is the most complete Francois Truffaut biography available ...
