François Truffaut

François Truffaut

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Birthday: 
6 February 1932, Paris, France
Birth Name: 
François Roland Truffaut
Height: 
168 cm
François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. 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 becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army... Show more »
François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. 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 becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine, Truffaut and some of his friends as passionate as he is, became defender of what they call the "author policy". In 1954, as a test, Truffaut directed his first short film. Two years afterwords, in 1956, he assisted Roberto Rossellini with some later abandoned projects.The year 1957 was an important one for him: he married Madeleine Morgenstern, the daughter of an important film distributor, and founded his own production company "Les Films du Carrosse"; named after Jean Renoir's Le carrosse d'or (1952) (Le Carosse d'or). He also directed Les mistons (1957), considered as the real first step of his cinematographic work. The other big year was 1959: the huge success of his first full-length film Les quatre cents coups (1959) (Les quatre cents coups) was the beginning of the New Wave, a new way of making movies in France. This was also the birth year of his first daughter Laura Truffaut.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 of French actress Fanny Ardant). Truffaut was the most popular and successful French film director ever. His main themes were passion, women, childhood and faithfulness. Show less «

François Truffaut's FILMOGRAPHY

Godard seul le cinéma [Audio: French]

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Spielberg

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Voyage à travers le cinéma français [Audio: French]

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

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The Dreamers

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Breathless

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Le dernier métro [Audio: French]

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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L`histoire d`Adèle H.

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Day for Night

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Two English Girls (Les deux Anglaises et le continent)

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Fahrenheit 451

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À tout prendre

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Jules and Jim

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Shoot the Piano Player

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The 400 Blows

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François Truffaut'S roles

Claude Lacombe
Claude Lacombe