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, widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave.[3] With a career of more than 25 years, he is an icon of the French film industry. As a young man, he came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin, who hired him to write for his Cahiers du Cinéma. It was there that he became an exponent of the auteur theory, which said the director is the true author of the film.[4] The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut supplied the story for another milestone of the movement, Breathless (1960), directed by his Cahiers colleague Jean-Luc Godard.
François Truffaut | |
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| Born | François Roland Truffaut 6 February 1932 Paris, France |
| Died | 21 October 1984 (aged 52) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Resting place | Montmartre Cemetery |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1955–1984 |
| Movement | French New Wave |
| Spouse |
Madeleine Morgenstern
(m. 1957; div. 1965) |
| Partner(s) | Claude Jade (1968; engaged) Fanny Ardant (1981–1984; his death) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Ignace Morgenstern (father-in-law) |
His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last Metro (1980) and The Woman Next Door (1981). Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He played the director of the film-within-the-film in Day For Night and the scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), based on his interviews with his hero Alfred Hitchcock. Truffaut paid homage to Hitchcock in The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and his last film, Confidentially Yours (1981).
He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged to leading actress Claude Jade from three of his films, and lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two last films, until his death. David Thomson writes that "for many people who love film Truffaut will always seem like the most accessible and engaging crest of the New Wave."[5]
Early life
editTruffaut was born in Paris on 6 February 1932.[6] His mother was Janine de Montferrand. His mother's future husband, Roland Truffaut, accepted him as an adopted son and gave him his surname. He was passed around to live with various nannies and his grandmother for a number of years. His grandmother instilled in him her love of books and music. He lived with her until her death, when Truffaut was eight years old. It was only after her death that he lived with his parents.[7] Truffaut's biological father's identity is unknown, but a private detective agency in 1968 revealed that its inquiry into the matter led to a Roland Levy, a Jewish dentist from Bayonne. Truffaut's mother's family disputed the finding but Truffaut believed and embraced it.[8]
Truffaut often stayed with friends and tried to be out of the house as much as possible. He knew Robert Lachenay from childhood, and they were lifelong best friends. Lachenay was the inspiration for the character René Bigey in The 400 Blows and worked as an assistant on some of Truffaut's films. Cinema offered Truffaut the greatest escape from an unsatisfying home life. He was eight years old when he saw his first movie, Abel Gance's Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost, 1939), beginning his obsession. He frequently skipped school and sneaked into theaters because he lacked the money for admission. At age eleven, he read Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1868), which inspired him to become a novelist.[4] After being expelled from several schools, at age 14 he decided to become self-taught. Two of his academic goals were to watch three movies a day and read three books a week.[7][9]
"What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation".[4] Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, where he was exposed to countless foreign films, becoming familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, as well as British director Alfred Hitchcock.[10]
Career
editAndré Bazin
editAfter starting his own film club in 1948, Truffaut met André Bazin, who had a great effect on his professional and personal life. Bazin was a critic and the head of another film society at the time. He became a personal friend of Truffaut's and helped him out of various financial and criminal situations during his formative years.[11]
Truffaut joined the French Army in 1950, aged 18, but spent the next two years trying to escape. He was arrested for attempting to desert the army and incarcerated in military prison. Bazin used his political contacts to get Truffaut released and set him up with a job at his new film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma.
Cahiers du Cinéma
editOver the next few years, Truffaut became a critic (and later editor) at Cahiers, where he became notorious for his brutal, unforgiving reviews. He was called "The Gravedigger of French Cinema"[12] and was the only French critic not invited to the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. He supported Bazin in developing one of the most influential theories of cinema, the auteur theory.[13]
In 1954, Truffaut wrote an article in Cahiers du cinéma, "Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français" ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"),[9] in which he attacked the state of French films, lambasting certain screenwriters and producers, and listing eight directors he considered incapable of devising the kinds of "vile" and "grotesque" characters and storylines he called characteristic of the mainstream French film industry: Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Becker, Abel Gance, Max Ophuls, Jacques Tati and Roger Leenhardt. The article caused a storm of controversy and landed Truffaut an offer to write for the nationally circulated, more widely read cultural weekly Arts-Lettres-Spectacles. Truffaut wrote more than 500 film articles for that publication over the next four years.
Truffaut later devised the auteur theory, according to which the director was the "author" of his work and great directors such as Renoir or Hitchcock have distinct styles and themes that permeate their films. Although his theory was not widely accepted then, it gained some support in the 1960s from American critic Andrew Sarris. In 1966, Truffaut published his book-length interview with Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut.
Short films
editAfter having been a critic, Truffaut decided to make films. He began with the short film Une Visite (1955) and followed it with Les Mistons (1957).
The 400 Blows
editAfter seeing Orson Welles's Touch of Evil at the Expo 58, Truffaut made his directorial debut with The 400 Blows (1959), which received considerable critical and commercial acclaim. He won the Best Director award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows the character of Antoine Doinel through his perilous misadventures in school, an unhappy home life and later reform school. It is highly autobiographical. Both Truffaut and Doinel were only children of loveless marriages; they both committed petty crimes of theft and truancy from the military. Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Léaud as Doinel. Léaud was seen as an ordinary boy of 14 who auditioned for the role after seeing a flyer, but interviews after the film's release (one is included on the Criterion DVD of the film) reveal Léaud's natural sophistication and an instinctive understanding of acting for the camera. Léaud and Truffaut collaborated on several films over the years. Their most noteworthy collaboration was the continuation of Doinel's story in a series of films called "The Antoine Doinel Cycle".
The primary focus of The 400 Blows is Doinel's life. The film follows him through his troubled adolescence. He is caught in between an unstable parental relationship and an isolated youth. From birth Truffaut was thrown into a troublesome situation. As he was born out of wedlock, his birth had to remain a secret because of the stigma of illegitimacy. He was registered as "a child born to an unknown father" in hospital records and looked after by a nurse for an extended period of time. His mother eventually married and her husband gave François his surname, Truffaut.
The 400 Blows marked the beginning of the French New Wave movement, led by such directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette. The New Wave dealt with a self-conscious rejection of traditional cinema structure, a topic on which Truffaut had been writing for years. Thomson writes that The 400 Blows "securely tied the new films to Renoir, Vigo, and the French tradition of location shooting, flowing camera, and offhand lyricism."[5] Time included it on its list of the one hundred greatest films since the magazine's founding, with Richard Schickel writing: "Partly autobiographical, both realistic and gently experimental in manner, it tells the story of a mischievous boy flirting with full-scale delinquency. TIME thought the director 'impressively objective and mature.' It did not mention his uncanny ability to achieve cinematic elegance on a shoestring. Or, more important, his ability to enlist sympathy for his protagonist without unduly sentimentalizing him."[14] Truffaut provided the premise for another landmark New Wave film, Godard's Breathless (1960).[5]
Shoot the Piano Player
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Following the success of The 400 Blows, Truffaut featured disjunctive editing and seemingly random voiceovers in his next film, Shoot the Piano Player (1960), starring Charles Aznavour. Truffaut has said that in the middle of filming, he realized that he hated gangsters. But since gangsters were a main part of the story, he toned up the comical aspect of the characters and made the movie more to his liking.
While Shoot the Piano Player was much appreciated by critics, it performed poorly at the box office. Truffaut never again experimented as heavily. Referring to the film's digressions, Thomson calls it "the kind of film Laurence Sterne might have made".[5]
Jules and Jim and The Soft Skin
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Truffaut directed Jules and Jim (1962), the story of a ménage à trois starring Oskar Werner, Henri Serre and Jeanne Moreau. Pauline Kael defended the film against charges of immorality: "Jules and Jim is not only one of the most beautiful films ever made, and the greatest motion picture of recent years, it is also, viewed as a work of art, exquisitely and impeccably moral. Truffaut does not use the screen for messages or special pleading or to sell sex for money; he uses the film medium to express his love and knowledge of life as completely as he can."[15]
Thomson writes that "The speed of farce chasing pathos was very influential, not least on the writers of Bonnie and Clyde. In Jules et Jim, Truffaut formed his most fruitful collaboration, with the novelist Henri-Pierre Roché, author of Les Deux Anglaises and of a situation dear to Truffaut—the passionate triangle in which three people are trapped, all in love with all, all reluctant to hurt the others."[5] In 1963, Truffaut was approached to direct Bonnie and Clyde, with a treatment written by Esquire journalists David Newman and Robert Benton intended to introduce the French New Wave to Hollywood. Although he was interested enough to help in script development, Truffaut ultimately declined, but not before interesting Godard and American actor and would-be producer Warren Beatty, who proceeded with the film with director Arthur Penn.
Truffaut's fourth film, The Soft Skin (1964), was not acclaimed on its release.
Fahrenheit 451
editTruffaut's first non-French film was a 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, showcasing Truffaut's love of books. His only English-speaking film, made on location in England, was a great challenge for Truffaut, because he barely spoke English himself. Shot by cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, it was Truffaut's first film in colour. The larger-scale production was difficult for Truffaut, who had worked only with small crews and budgets. The shoot was also strained by a conflict with Oskar Werner, who was unhappy with his character and stormed off set, leaving Truffaut to shoot scenes using a body double shot from behind. The film was a commercial failure, and Truffaut never worked outside France again. The film's cult standing has steadily grown, although some critics remain dubious of it as an adaptation.[16] A 2014 consideration of the film by Charles Silver praises it.[17]
Thrillers and Stolen Kisses
editStolen Kisses (1968) was a continuation of the Antoine Doinel Cycle starring Claude Jade as Antoine's fiancée and later wife Christine Darbon. During its filming Truffaut fell in love with Jade and was briefly engaged to her. It was a big hit on the international art circuit. A short time later, Jade made her Hollywood debut in Hitchcock's Topaz.[18]
Truffaut worked on projects with varied subjects. The Bride Wore Black (1968), a brutal tale of revenge, is a stylish homage to the films of Hitchcock, once again starring Moreau. Mississippi Mermaid (1969), with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, is an identity-bending romantic thriller. Both films are based on novels by Cornell Woolrich.
The Wild Child (1970) included Truffaut's acting debut in the lead role of 18th-century physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who treated the feral child Victor of Aveyron.
Doinel marries Christine
editBed and Board (1970) was another Antoine Doinel film, also with Jade, now Léaud's on-screen-wife.
Two English Girls (1971), a story of "Proust and the Brontë sisters"[5] is the female reflection of the love story in "Jules et Jim". It is based on a story by Roché, who wrote Jules and Jim, about a man who falls equally in love with two sisters, and their love affair over a period of years.
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) was a screwball comedy.
Day for Night
editDay for Night won Truffaut an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[19] It is probably his most reflective work, telling the story of a film crew trying to finish a film while dealing with the personal and professional problems that accompany making a movie. Truffaut plays the director of the film-within-the film, Meet Pamela. Day For Night features scenes from his previous films. It is considered his best film since his early work. Thomson notes "the pleasure with all cinema's tricks and the way it makes them clear to a lay audience."[5] Time magazine placed it on its list of 100 Best Films of the Century, with Schickel writing: "Truffaut perfectly captures the romance and hysteria, the guiding obsessions, the lunatic distractions and the desperate improvisations of a company shooting a film, which may not be as great as they delude themselves into thinking it is."[14]
In 1975, Truffaut gained more notoriety with The Story of Adèle H.; Isabelle Adjani in the title role earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Small Change (1976) was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Final films
editThe Man Who Loved Women (1977), a romantic drama, was a minor hit.
Truffaut appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) as scientist Claude Lacombe.[20] He also starred in his own The Green Room (1978), based on Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead". It was a box-office flop, so he made Love on the Run (1979) starring Léaud and Jade as the final movie of the Doinel Cycle.
One of Truffaut's final films gave him an international revival. The Last Metro (1980) garnered 12 César Award nominations and 10 wins, including Best Director.
Truffaut's last film was shot in black and white, making it a bookend to his first. Confidentially Yours (1981) is Truffaut's homage to Hitchcock. It deals with numerous Hitchcockian themes, such as private guilt versus public innocence, a woman investigating a murder and anonymous locations.
Legacy
editMany filmmakers admire Truffaut, and homages to his work have appeared in films such as Almost Famous, Face and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. In conversation with Michael Ondaatje, film editor Walter Murch mentions the influence Truffaut had on him as a young man, saying he was "electrified" by the freeze-frame at the end of The 400 Blows, and that Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player reinforced the idea that he could make films.[21] Known as a lifelong cinephile, Truffaut once (according to the 1993 documentary film François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits) threw a hitchhiker out of his car after learning that he did not like films.
Roger Ebert included The 400 Blows in his canon of Great Movies, writing of Truffaut:
one of his most curious, haunting films is The Green Room (1978), based on the Henry James story "The Altar of the Dead", about a man and a woman who share a passion for remembering their dead loved ones. Jonathan Rosenbaum, who thinks The Green Room may be Truffaut's best film, told me he thinks of it as the director's homage to the auteur theory. That theory, created by Bazin and his disciples (Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Rohmer, Malle), declared that the director was the true author of a film—not the studio, the screenwriter, the star, the genre. If the figures in the green room stand for the great directors of the past, perhaps there is a shrine there now to Truffaut. One likes to think of the ghost of Antoine Doinel lighting a candle before it.[22]
Commentary on other filmmakers
editTruffaut expressed his admiration for filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini and Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut, a book about Hitchcock, based on a lengthy series of interviews.[23]
Of Jean Renoir, he said: "I think Renoir is the only filmmaker who's practically infallible, who has never made a mistake on film. And I think if he never made mistakes, it's because he always found solutions based on simplicity—human solutions. He's one film director who never pretended. He never tried to have a style, and if you know his work—which is very comprehensive, since he dealt with all sorts of subjects—when you get stuck, especially as a young filmmaker, you can think of how Renoir would have handled the situation, and you generally find a solution".[24] Truffaut named his production company "Les Films du Carrosse" after Renoir's The Golden Coach (La Carrosse d'Or).[4]
Truffaut called German filmmaker Werner Herzog "the most important film director alive."[25]
Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, his colleague from Les Cahiers du Cinéma, worked together closely during their start as film directors although they had different working methods. Tensions came to the surface after May 68: Godard wanted a more political, specifically Marxist cinema, Truffaut was critical of creating films for primarily political purposes.[26] In 1973, Godard wrote Truffaut a lengthy and raucous private letter peppered with accusations and insinuations, several times stating that as a filmmaker "you're a liar" and that his latest film (Day for Night) had been unsatisfying, lying and evasive: "You're a liar, because the scene between you and Jacqueline Bisset last week at Francis [a Paris restaurant] isn't included in your movie, and one also can't help wondering why the director is the only guy who isn't sleeping around in Day for Night" (Truffaut directed the film, wrote it and played the role of the director). Godard also implied that Truffaut had gone commercial and easy.[27]
Truffaut replied with an angry 20-page letter in which he accused Godard of being a radical-chic hypocrite, a man who believed everyone to be "equal" in theory only. "The Ursula Andress of militancy—like Brando—a piece of shit on a pedestal." Godard later tried to reconcile with Truffaut, but they never spoke to or saw each other again.[28] After Truffaut's death, Godard wrote the introduction to a generous selection of his correspondence, and included his own 1973 letter. He also offered a long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma.[29]
Personal life
editTruffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961). Madeleine was the daughter of Ignace Morgenstern, managing director of one of France's largest film distribution companies, Cocinor, and was largely responsible for securing funding for Truffaut's first films.
In 1968, Truffaut was engaged to actress Claude Jade (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run); he and Fanny Ardant (The Woman Next Door, Confidentially Yours) lived together from 1981 to 1984 and had a daughter, Joséphine Truffaut (born 28 September 1983).[7][30]
Truffaut was an atheist, but had great respect for the Catholic Church and requested a Requiem Mass for his funeral.[31][32]
Death
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In July 1983, following his first stroke and being diagnosed with a brain tumour,[33] Truffaut rented France Gall's and Michel Berger's house outside Honfleur, Normandy. He was expected to attend his friend Miloš Forman's Amadeus premiere[34] when he died on 21 October 1984, aged 52, at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.[35]
At the time of his death, he was said to have numerous further films in preparation. He is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.[36]
Filmography
editShort film
edit| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Une Visite | Yes | Yes | |
| 1957 | Les Mistons | Yes | Uncredited | |
| 1961 | A Story of Water | Yes | Yes | Co-directed with Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1962 | Antoine and Colette | Yes | Yes | Segment from Love at Twenty |
Feature film
edit| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | |
| 1960 | Breathless | No | Yes | No | |
| Shoot the Piano Player | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| The Army Game | Yes | Yes | Yes | Co-directed with Claude de Givray | |
| 1962 | Jules and Jim | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | |
| 1964 | The Soft Skin | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1966 | Fahrenheit 451 | Yes | Yes | No | English debut |
| 1968 | The Bride Wore Black | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Stolen Kisses | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | ||
| 1969 | Mississippi Mermaid | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1970 | The Wild Child | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Bed and Board | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | ||
| 1971 | Two English Girls | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1972 | Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1973 | Day for Night | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1975 | The Story of Adèle H. | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1976 | Small Change | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1977 | The Man Who Loved Women | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | |
| 1978 | The Green Room | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1979 | Love on the Run | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1980 | The Last Metro | Yes | Yes | Uncredited | |
| 1981 | The Woman Next Door | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1983 | Confidentially Yours | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1988 | The Little Thief | No | Yes | No | Posthumous release |
TV writer (Posthumous releases)
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Belle Époque | Miniseries |
| 2019–2022 | Lire | 3 episodes |
Acting roles
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Fool's Mate | Party guest | Uncredited |
| La sonate à Kreutzer | |||
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Man in Funfair | Uncredited |
| 1963 | À tout prendre | Himself | |
| 1964 | The Soft Skin | Petrol pump attendant (Voice) | |
| 1970 | The Wild Child | Dr. Jean Itard | |
| Bed and Board | Newspaper vendor | Voice, Uncredited | |
| 1971 | Two English Girls | Récitant / Narrator | |
| 1972 | Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me | Un journaliste | |
| 1973 | Day for Night | Ferrand, the film director | |
| 1975 | The Story of Adèle H. | Officer | Uncredited |
| 1976 | Small Change | Martine's Father | |
| 1977 | The Man Who Loved Women | Man at Funeral | |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Claude Lacombe | ||
| 1978 | The Green Room | Julien Davenne | Lead role |
| 1981 | The Woman Next Door | Cameo | Uncredited |
Awards and nominations
editAcademy Awards
| Year | Title | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | [37] |
| 1968 | Stolen Kisses | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | [38] |
| 1973 | Day for Night | Won | [19] | |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 1980 | The Last Metro | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | [39] |
BAFTA Awards
| Year | Title | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Day for Night | Best Film | Won |
| Best Direction | Won | ||
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
Berlin International Film Festival
| Year | Title | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Small Change | Golden Bear | Nominated | [40] |
| 1977 | The Man Who Loved Women | Nominated | [41] | |
| 1979 | Love on the Run | Nominated | [42] |
Cannes Film Festival
| Year | Title | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The 400 Blows | Palme d'Or | Nominated |
| Best Director | Won | ||
| 1964 | The Soft Skin | Palme d'Or | Nominated |
César Awards
| Year | Title | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | The Story of Adèle H. | Best Director | Nominated |
| 1980 | The Last Metro | Best Film | Won |
| Best Director | Won | ||
| Best Writing | Won | ||
| 1983 | Confidentially Yours | Best Director | Nominated |
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
| Year | Title | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Jules and Jim | Best Film | Nominated |
| Best Director | Won |
Venice International Film Festival
| Year | Title | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Fahrenheit 451 | Golden Lion | Nominated |
Bibliography
edit- Les 400 Coups (1960) with M. Moussy (English translation: The 400 Blows)
- Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock (1967, second edition 1983) (English translation: Hitchcock and Hitchcock/Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott)
- Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel (1970) (English translation: Adventures of Antoine Doinel; translated by Helen G. Scott)
- Jules et Jim (film script) (1971) (English translation: Jules and Jim; translated by Nicholas Fry)
- La Nuit américaine et le Journal de Fahrenheit 451 (1974)
- Le Plaisir des yeux (1975)
- L'Argent de poche (1976) (English title: Small Change: A Film Novel; translated by Anselm Hollo)
- L'Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)
- Les Films de ma vie (1981) (English translation: The Films in My Life, translated by Leonard Mayhew)
- Correspondance (1988) (English translation: Correspondence, 1945–1984; translated by Gilbert Adair, released posthumously)
- Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut (1988) edited by Anne Gillain (released posthumously)
- Belle époque (1996) with Jean Gruault (released posthumously)
See also
edit- François Truffaut Award
- Paris Belongs to Us
- Two in the Wave, a 2010 documentary film about Truffaut's relationship with Jean-Luc Godard
- La Cinémathèque Française will offer a full retrospective and an exhibition of François Truffaut's work[43] in 2014 / 2015
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- ^ Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 282
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External links
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- François Truffaut at IMDb
- New Wave Film Encyclopedia: "François Truffaut" an extensive biography
- François Truffaut complete biography: "François Truffaut" Archived 26 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- François Truffaut bibliography via the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
- Francois Truffaut at The Guardian Film
- Francois Truffaut at The New York Times Movies
- François Truffaut collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Legendary interview with Truffaut from 1970
- AllMovie.com Biography