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Category:	Cinema
Name:	Francois Truffaut
Birth Year:	1932
Death Year:	1984
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Francois Truffaut Search: Books DVD Classical Music DVD Popular Music Software Video magazines Toys & Games Baby Computer & Video Games Electronics Wireless Phones Tools & Hardware Outdoor Living Kitchen & Housewares Camera & Photo All Products Keywords: Francois Roland Truffaut (born in Paris, on February 6, 1932; died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French "New Wave" in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. He wrote, directed, acted in and produced over thirty films. Life Truffaut was born out of wedlock in 1930s Paris, where he was raised by his mother and his adopted father, Roland Truffaut, both of whom were devout Catholics. He never met his biological father, who was a Jewish dentist. Truffaut had a difficult childhood that resulted in rebellion against his parents in particular and authority in general. Truffaut reported that his film The 400 Blows (1959) was largely autobiographical. His love of films partly came from his elective father, the writer and critic Andre Bazin. Truffaut came to filmmaking only after an early career as one of the most outspoken film critics in France, writing for Bazin's les Cahiers du cinema (he became an editor of the review in 1953). The Cahiers at this time were intensely critical of post-war French cinema (because of the severity of his critiques, Truffaut was refused a press pass to the 1958Cannes film festival) and enamoured with Hollywood filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks. In 1954, Truffaut published an article expounding the politique des auteurs, or Auteur theory of cinema which championed the idea that movies should reflect the personal vision and preoccupations of the director. On October 29, 1957, he married Madeleine Morgenstern at the City Hall in Paris, with whom he had two children, Laura (b. January 22, 1959) and Eva (b. June 29, 1961). His father-in-law, a film producer and distributor, helped to get Truffaut's career off the ground. He and Morgenstern divorced in 1965. In 1983, he had a daughter with actress and constant companion, Fanny Ardant, Josephine Truffaut who was born on September 28, 1983, a year before his death. The dynamics of relationships are a common thread throughout most of his films. Truffaut was an expert on Sir Alfred Hitchcock, even publishing a book Hitchcock (also known as Hitchcock/Truffaut) which recorded interviews and conversations with Hitchcock. His last film Confidentially Yours, a comedy thriller in black and white, could be considered to be a "fake Hitchcock". Truffaut's 1973 production of La Nuit americaine won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Also an actor, he sometimes played in his own films, and appeared memorably in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Truffaut suffered from a brain tumor which was diagnosed in 1983. He died shortly thereafter in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 52. He was buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre in Paris. Work Among Truffaut's films one can discern a series featuring the character Antoine Doinel, played by the actor Jean-Pierre Leaud who began his career in The 400 Blows at the age of fourteen, continuing as the favourite actor and "double" of Truffaut himself. The series would continue until Love on the Run, while passing by Antoine and Colette (a short film in the anthology Love at Twenty), Stolen Kisses and Bed & Board. In most of these movies, Leaud's partner is Truffaut's favourite actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend (and then wife), "Christine Darbon". A keen reader, Truffaut filmed many novels: The Bride Wore Black by William Irish Mississippi Mermaid by William Irish The Long Saturday Night (filmed as Confidentially Yours) by Charles Williams Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me by Henry Farrell Jules et Jim Two English Girls Henry James' novel The Green Room, his most serious and deepest film Ray Bradbury's science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 Truffaut's other films result from original scenarios, often co-written by the scenario writers Suzanne Schiffman or Jean Gruault, films on very diverse subjects, the energetic The Story of Adele H., inspired by the life of the daughter of Victor Hugo, with Isabelle Adjani, or La Nuit americaine, shot at the Studio La Victorine describing the ups and downs of film-making, or The Last Metro, set during the German occupation of France, a film rewarded by ten Cesar Awards. [This article in part is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Francois Truffaut.] The Great Books: Francois Truffaut Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Francois Truffaut. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Francois Truffaut. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books .
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