Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
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François Roland Truffaut ( UK: / ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ -/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: / truːˈfoʊ / troo-FOH; [1] [2] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. [3]
- 1955–1984
- Montmartre Cemetery
- 21 October 1984 (aged 52), Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Apr 12, 2024 · François Truffaut (born February 6, 1932, Paris, France—died October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris) was a French film critic, director, and producer whose attacks on established filmmaking techniques both paved the way for and pioneered the movement known as the Nouvelle Vague ( New Wave ).
44 Photos. French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when ...
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- Paris, France
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- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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- François Truffaut, Lance Henriksen, Bob Balaban, and Warren J. Kemmerling in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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- François Truffaut, Richard Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen, and Bob Balaban in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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Feb 3, 2022 · A desolate tale of doomed love, which Truffaut invests with mystery and tragedy. 13. The Wild Child (1970) Perhaps the closest Truffaut came to the cinema of confrontation or shock, The Wild Child ...
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Sep 21, 2022 · One of the most impressive debuts in film history, François Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” created a sensation at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and elsewhere. It was voted the best foreign film ...
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 ...
François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry.
