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- Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977
- Les Quatre Cents Coups1959
- Fahrenheit 4511966
- Jules and Jim1962
- Day for Night1973
- The Story of Adele H1975
- The Last Metro1980
- Stolen Kisses1969
- The Wild Child1970
- Shoot the Piano Player1960
- The Bride Wore Black1968
- Mississippi Mermaid1969
- Bed and Board1968
- The Woman Next Door1981
- Love on the Run1979
- Antoine and Colette1962
- The Man Who Loved Women1977
- The Soft Skin1964
Francois Truffaut: All his movies ranked. A wonderful French movie director who was gone too soon. 1. Day for Night (1973) PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance. A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
From 1959 until his death, François Truffaut's life and films are mixed up. Let's only note he had two other daughters Eva Truffaut (b. 1961) and Josephine (b. 1982, with French actress Fanny Ardant ). Truffaut was the most popular and successful French film director ever.
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- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- The Man Who Loved Women
- The Mischief Makers
- Love on The Run
- Fahrenheit 451
- Two English Girls
- Mississippi Mermaid
- The Story of Adele H
- The Wild Child
- The Woman Next Door
- The Bride Wore Black
This worldly comedy of love is an example of how Truffaut always aspired to something lighthearted with even a touch of Lubitschian comedy. But it’s a very 70s piece of work in its knowing and slightly louche celebration of male romantic conquest (it got a Hollywood remake directed by Blake Edwards with Burt Reynolds). Charles Denner plays Bertrand...
This short was Truffaut’s first serious work (if you discount his initial student-exercise short film, A Visit), a 23-minute piece of startling confidence and maturity in which almost all of Truffaut’s themes are laid out: the innocence and guilt of childhood, young love, the scary mystery of sex, and the glory of cinema itself. Over a hot summer, ...
The adventures of Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel came to an end in this fifth and final film in the Doinel series – after The 400 Blows (1959), the short Antoine and Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968) and Bed and Board (1970), clips and outtakes from which surface here like flashes of memory. Doinel is now a thirtysomething guy, getting divo...
Truffaut wasn’t a natural at science-fiction – perhaps his most notable contribution to the genre was his acting cameo in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And it has to be said that this movie – though much discussed in its day, and instrumental in elevating the Bradbury novel to classic status while making the title itself part of t...
A period piece, starring Léaud in a non-Doinel role, it is based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, who wrote Jules et Jim, another love-triangle story about the erotic poignancy of shared love. Léaud is the young French art critic Claude, fascinated by a young Englishwoman in Paris, Anne (Kika Markham), who introduces him to her sister , who instan...
Another of the Truffaut movies based on an American crime novel – in this case, by Cornell Woolrich, whose short story It Had to be Murder inspired Hitchcock’s Rear Window. It was also another to get a dodgy Hollywood remake: Original Sin, from 2001, starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a wealthy tobacco farmer who...
An unusual film in the Truffaut canon in that it’s a period drama with a literary flavour, and so close to the old-fashioned cinéma de papa, which Truffaut once made his name by deriding. At 20 years old, Isabelle Adjani made her breakthrough here as Adele Hugo, living in the 1860s with her celebrated father, Victor, on the island of Guernsey, wher...
Perhaps the closest Truffaut came to the cinema of confrontation or shock, The Wild Child was arguably a forerunner to Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. Drawn from a sensational and mythologised case history from 18th-century France, it is the story of a “wolf boy” who is discovered living a feral existence in the forest. A doctor takes it upon...
A steamy melodrama, almost an erotic thriller, evidently inspired by Tristan and Isolde, which appeared at the time to lack the indirectness and lightness of touch that features in the best of Truffaut. Gérard Depardieu plays a happily married provincial man who is astonished when a former lover, herself now married, moves in next door – Fanny Arda...
Another playful pulp gem from Truffaut, again based on a Cornell Woolrich novel: a revenge thriller that is said to have paved the way for Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Truffaut created a great role for Jeanne Moreau as the woman whose husband was shot dead on their wedding day – and who sets out to get payback by murdering the original killer and his fou...
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- Day for Night (1973) Day for Night is a love letter to the art of filmmaking. Directed by François Truffaut, the film follows the production of a movie, from casting to shooting to the final cut.
- Jules and Jim (1962) Jules and Jim is a timeless masterpiece that explores the complex dynamics of love, friendship, and desire. Directed by the legendary filmmaker François Truffaut, the movie tells the story of two young men, Jules and Jim, who fall in love with the same woman, Catherine, and their journey through life.
- The 400 Blows (1959) As an acclaimed author and film enthusiast, I am excited to share my thoughts on Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. This 1959 French New Wave classic follows the story of Antoine Doinel, a troubled adolescent who struggles to navigate his tumultuous life amidst a dysfunctional family and a corrupt school system.
- Mississippi Mermaid (1969) Mississippi Mermaid is a riveting tale of love, betrayal, and mystery that will leave you guessing until the very end. Directed by the legendary filmmaker François Truffaut, this film is a masterpiece of French cinema.
With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (1959) is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels: Antoine et Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979).
Mar 17, 2015 · It didn’t help that it followed one of the most. spectacular runs in cinema history with Truffaut’s last three. solo-directed features being “Jules et Jim,” “Shoot the Piano Player ...