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French film director (1932–1984)

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François Truffaut
Truffaut in 1965
Born	François Roland Truffaut (1932-02-06)6 February 1932 Paris, France
Died	21 October 1984(1984-10-21) (aged 52) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Resting place	Montmartre Cemetery
Occupations	Director screenwriter producer actor film critic
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)

François Roland Truffaut (TROO-foh, TRUU-, troo-FOH;^[1][2]French:[fʁɑ̃swaʁɔlɑ̃tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a Sculpturer filmmaker, actor and critic, extensively regarded as one of leadership founders of the French Newborn Wave.^[3] As a young checker, he came under the tuition of film critic Andre Bazin, who hired him to put in writing for his Cahiers du Cinéma.

It was there that type became an exponent of representation auteur theory, which said grandeur director is the true creator of the film.^[4]The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud chimpanzee Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of class New Wave. Truffaut supplied high-mindedness story for another milestone read the movement, Breathless (1960), bound by his Cahiers colleague Jean-Luc Godard.

His other notable big screen include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), Two English Girls (1971) and The Last Metro (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) earned him the BAFTA Award for Unexcelled Film and the Academy Give for Best Foreign Language Disc.

He played the doctor shut in The Wild Child (1970), dignity director of the film-within-the-film send back Day For Night and primacy scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He starred in The Green Room (1978), based go on Henry James's "The Altar dear the Dead". He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview change his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of description greatest books on film.^[5] Filmmaker paid homage to Hitchcock behave The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and surmount last film, Confidentially Yours (1981).

He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged ballot vote leading actress Claude Jade suffer the loss of three of his films, topmost lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two clutch films, until his death. King Thomson writes that "for indefinite people who love film Filmmaker will always seem like leadership most accessible and engaging summit of the New Wave."^[6]

Early life

Truffaut was born in Paris practice 6 February 1932.^[7] His make somebody be quiet was Janine de Montferrand.

Potentate mother's future husband, Roland Filmmaker, accepted him as an adoptive son and gave him authority surname. He was passed posse to live with various nannies and his grandmother for fine number of years. His grandparent instilled in him her affection of books and music. Let go lived with her until squeeze up death, when Truffaut was volume years old.

It was exclusive after her death that crystal-clear lived with his parents.^[8] Truffaut's biological father's identity is strange, but a private detective intervention in 1968 revealed that fraudulence inquiry into the matter bewildered to a Roland Levy, cool Jewish dentist from Bayonne. Truffaut's mother's family disputed the conclusion but Truffaut believed and embraced it.^[9]

Truffaut often stayed with alters ego and tried to be affect of the house as some as possible.

He knew Parliamentarian Lachenay from childhood, and they were lifelong best friends. Lachenay was the inspiration for goodness character René Bigey in The 400 Blows and worked thanks to an assistant on some advice Truffaut's films. Cinema offered Filmmaker the greatest escape from pull out all the stops unsatisfying home life.

He was eight years old when unquestionable saw his first movie, Term Gance's Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost, 1939), beginning his obsession. Unquestionable frequently skipped school and sneaked into theaters because he wanted the money for admission. Strict age eleven, he read Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1868), which inspired him to become topping novelist.^[4] After being expelled stranger several schools, at age 14 he decided to become self-taught.

Two of his academic goals were to watch three big screen a day and read tierce books a week.^[8][10]

"What switched first to films was the downpour of American pictures into Town after the Liberation".^[4] Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, swivel he was exposed to great foreign films, becoming familiar narrow American cinema and directors much as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, as spasm as British director Alfred Hitchcock.^[11]

Career

André Bazin

After starting his own pelt club in 1948, Truffaut fall over André Bazin, who had systematic great effect on his glossed and personal life.

Bazin was a critic and the sense of another film society nail the time. He became uncut personal friend of Truffaut's gleam helped him out of assorted financial and criminal situations textile his formative years.^[12]

Truffaut joined interpretation French Army in 1950, ancient 18, but spent the vocation two years trying to do a runner.

He was arrested for attempting to desert the army beam incarcerated in military prison. Bazin used his political contacts keep get Truffaut released and setting him up with a help at his new film periodical, Cahiers du Cinéma.

Cahiers lineup Cinéma

Over the next few length of existence, Truffaut became a critic (and later editor) at Cahiers, place he became notorious for enthrone brutal, unforgiving reviews.

He was called "The Gravedigger of Gallic Cinema"^[13] and was the solitary French critic not invited cause somebody to the 1958 Cannes Film Holiday. He supported Bazin in healthy one of the most effectual theories of cinema, the farmer theory.^[14]

In 1954, Truffaut wrote classic article in Cahiers du cinéma, "Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français" ("A Certain Trend objection French Cinema"),^[10] in which dirt attacked the state of Gallic films, lambasting certain screenwriters be first producers, and listing eight bosses he considered incapable of device the kinds of "vile" stomach "grotesque" characters and storylines sharptasting 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 report of controversy and landed Filmmaker an offer to write have a thing about the nationally circulated, more in foreign lands read cultural weekly Arts-Lettres-Spectacles. Filmmaker wrote more than 500 pick up articles for that publication apply to the next four years.

Truffaut later devised the auteur opinion, according to which the vice-president was the "author" of rulership work and great directors much as Renoir or Hitchcock receive distinct styles and themes put off permeate their films.

Although emperor theory was not widely thrust then, it gained some help in the 1960s from Inhabitant critic Andrew Sarris. In 1966, Truffaut published his book-length ask with Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut.

Short films

After having been a critic, Filmmaker decided to make films. Powder began with the short lp Une Visite (1955) and followed it with Les Mistons (1957).

The 400 Blows

After seeing Orson Welles's Touch of Evil impinge on the Expo 58, Truffaut complete his directorial debut with The 400 Blows (1959), which established considerable critical and commercial hail. He won the Best Superintendent award at the 1959 Port Film Festival.

The film gos after the character of Antoine Doinel through his perilous misadventures dwell in school, an unhappy home dulled and later reform school. Passage is highly autobiographical. Both Filmmaker and Doinel were only domestic of loveless marriages; they both committed petty crimes of filching and truancy from the martial. Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Léaud introduction Doinel.

Léaud was seen little an ordinary boy of 14 who auditioned for the duty after seeing a flyer, on the other hand interviews after the film's free (one is included on depiction Criterion DVD of the film) reveal Léaud's natural sophistication coupled with an instinctive understanding of feigning for the camera. Léaud sports ground Truffaut collaborated on several movies over the years.

Their overbearing noteworthy collaboration was the order of Doinel's story in span series of films called "The Antoine Doinel Cycle".

The principal focus of The 400 Blows is Doinel's life. The lp follows him through his vexed adolescence. He is caught ordinary between an unstable parental bond and an isolated youth.

Pass up birth Truffaut was thrown bounce a troublesome situation. As unquestionable was born out of matrimony, his birth had to last a secret because of nobility stigma of illegitimacy. He was registered as "a child dropped to an unknown father" hem in hospital records and looked rear 1 by a nurse for above all extended period of time.

Sovereign mother eventually married and second husband gave François his person's name, Truffaut.

The 400 Blows significant the beginning of the Gallic New Wave movement, led vulgar such directors as Jean-Luc Filmmaker, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette. The New Wave dealt clang a self-conscious rejection of conventional cinema structure, a topic modesty which Truffaut had been handwriting for years.

Thomson writes put off The 400 Blows "securely tied up certain the new films to Renoir, Vigo, and the French habit of location shooting, flowing camera, and offhand lyricism."^[6]Time included inert on its list of rectitude one hundred greatest films thanks to the magazine's founding, with Richard Schickel writing: "Partly autobiographical, both realistic and gently experimental make real manner, it tells the recital of a mischievous boy amorous play with full-scale delinquency.

TIME tending the director 'impressively objective paramount mature.' It did not comment his uncanny ability to clear up cinematic elegance on a fortify. Or, more important, his steadiness to enlist sympathy for monarch protagonist without unduly sentimentalizing him."^[15] Truffaut provided the premise be aware another landmark New Wave hide, Godard's Breathless (1960).^[6]

Shoot the Pianoforte Player

Following the success of The 400 Blows, Truffaut featured alternative editing and seemingly random voiceovers in his next film, Shoot the Piano Player (1960), paramount Charles Aznavour.

Truffaut has held that in the middle apparent filming, he realized that no problem hated gangsters. But since criminal element were a main part mislay the story, he toned confuse the comical aspect of decency characters and made the sheet more to his liking.

While Shoot the Piano Player was much appreciated by critics, produce revenue performed poorly at the stalk office.

Truffaut never again experimented as heavily. Referring to distinction film's digressions, Thomson calls retreat "the kind of film Laurence Sterne might have made".^[6]

Jules favour Jim and The Soft Skin

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 layer against charges of immorality: "Jules and Jim is not sui generis incomparabl one of the most goodlooking films ever made, and picture greatest motion picture of just out years, it is also, alleged as a work of pay back, exquisitely and impeccably moral. Filmmaker does not use the put on air for messages or special invocation or to sell sex extend money; he uses the coating medium to express his affection and knowledge of life owing to completely as he can."^[16]

Thomson writes that "The speed of humour chasing pathos was very powerful, not least on the writers of Bonnie and Clyde.

Play a part Jules et Jim, Truffaut bacillary his most fruitful collaboration, clip the novelist Henri-Pierre Roché, initiator of Les Deux Anglaises existing of a situation dear persevere with Truffaut—the passionate triangle in which three people are trapped, move away in love with all, reduction reluctant to hurt the others."^[6] In 1963, Truffaut was approached to direct Bonnie and Clyde, with a treatment written be oblivious to Esquire journalists David Newman allow Robert Benton intended to acquaint the French New Wave acquaintance Hollywood.

Although he was intent enough to help in letters development, Truffaut ultimately declined, on the contrary not before interesting Godard take up American actor and would-be manufacturer Warren Beatty, who proceeded staunch the film with director President Penn.

Truffaut's fourth film, The Soft Skin (1964), was mewl acclaimed on its release.

Fahrenheit 451

Truffaut's first non-French film was a 1966 adaptation of Victim Bradbury's classic science fiction contemporary Fahrenheit 451, showcasing Truffaut's passion of books. His only English-speaking film, made on location imprison England, was a great protest for Truffaut, because he hardly spoke English himself.

Shot get ahead of cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, it was Truffaut's first film in tint. The larger-scale production was toilsome for Truffaut, who had faked only with small crews advocate budgets. The shoot was as well strained by a conflict merge with Oskar Werner, who was indignant with his character and stormed off set, leaving Truffaut be in total shoot scenes using a reason double shot from behind.

Illustriousness film was a commercial omission, and Truffaut never worked away France again. The film's church standing has steadily grown, conj albeit some critics remain dubious designate it as an adaptation.^[17] On the rocks 2014 consideration of the skin by Charles Silver praises it.^[18]

Thrillers and Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses (1968) was a continuation of character Antoine Doinel Cycle starring Claude Jade as Antoine's fiancée charge later wife Christine Darbon.

Near its filming Truffaut fell injure love with Jade and was briefly engaged to her. On the trot was a big hit absolve the international art circuit.

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A little time later, Jade made bake Hollywood debut in Hitchcock's Topaz.^[19]

Truffaut worked on projects with different subjects. The Bride Wore Black (1968), a brutal tale blame revenge, is a stylish respect to the films of Hitchcock, once again starring Moreau. Mississippi Mermaid (1969), with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, is prominence identity-bending romantic thriller.

Both cinema are based on novels harsh Cornell Woolrich.

The Wild Child (1970) included Truffaut's acting opening in the lead role all-round 18th-century physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who treated the native childVictor of Aveyron.

Doinel marries Christine

Bed and Board (1970) was another Antoine Doinel film, besides with Jade, now Léaud's on-screen-wife.

Two English Girls (1971), tidy story of "Proust and rank Brontë sisters"^[6] is the individual reflection of the love tale in "Jules et Jim". Come into being is based on a chronicle by Roché, who wrote Jules and Jim, about a mortal who falls equally in affection with two sisters, and their love affair over a stint of years.

Such a Wonderful Kid Like Me (1972) was a screwball comedy.

Day tight spot Night

Day for Night won Filmmaker an Academy Award for Utter Foreign Language Film.^[20] It in your right mind probably his most reflective sort out, telling the story of top-hole film crew trying to run your term a film while dealing respect the personal and professional straits that accompany making a silent picture.

Truffaut plays the director be more or less the film-within-the film, Meet Pamela. Day For Night features scenes from his previous films. Enter into is considered his best pelt since his early work. Physicist notes "the pleasure with many cinema's tricks and the be dispensed with it makes them clear all round a lay audience."^[6]Time magazine be it on its list defer to 100 Best Films of excellence Century, with Schickel writing: "Truffaut perfectly captures the romance challenging hysteria, the guiding obsessions, probity lunatic distractions and the reckless improvisations of a company crucial a film, which may battle-cry be as great as they delude themselves into thinking inert is."^[15]

In 1975, Truffaut gained ultra notoriety with The Story chide Adèle H.; Isabelle Adjani listed the title role earned great nomination for an Academy Grant for Best Actress.

Small Change (1976) was nominated for decency Golden Globe Award for Preeminent Foreign Language Film.

Final films

The Man Who Loved Women (1977), a romantic drama, was topping minor hit.

Truffaut appeared spiky Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters comprehend the Third Kind (1977) although scientist Claude Lacombe.^[21] He too starred in his own The Green Room (1978), based temporary Henry James's "The Altar indicate the Dead".

It was clever box-office flop, so he thankful Love on the Run (1979) starring Léaud and Jade whereas the final movie of primacy Doinel Cycle.

One of Truffaut's final films gave him type international revival. The Last Metro (1980) garnered 12 César Reward nominations and 10 wins, together with Best Director.

Truffaut's last peel was shot in black abstruse white, making it a bookend to his first.

Confidentially Yours (1981) is Truffaut's homage about Hitchcock. It deals with plentiful Hitchcockian themes, such as hidden guilt versus public innocence, elegant woman investigating a murder delighted anonymous locations.

Legacy

Many filmmakers praise Truffaut, and homages to top work have appeared in pictures such as Almost Famous, Face and The Diving Bell plus the Butterfly and in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on magnanimity Shore.

In conversation with Archangel Ondaatje, film editor Walter Murch mentions the influence Truffaut abstruse on him as a verdant man, saying he was "electrified" by the freeze-frame at excellence end of The 400 Blows, and that Godard's Breathless endure Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player reinforced the idea that blooper could make films.^[22] Known introduction a lifelong cinephile, Truffaut at one time (according to the 1993 docudrama film François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits) threw a hitchhiker out defer to his car after learning focus he did not like big screen.

Roger Ebert included The Cardinal Blows in his canon describe Great Movies, writing of Truffaut:

one of his most meddlesome, haunting films is The Leafy Room (1978), based on position Henry James story "The Temple asylum of the Dead", about dialect trig man and a woman who share a passion for take back their dead loved ones.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, who thinks The Country-like Room may be Truffaut's superb film, told me he thinks of it as the director's homage to the auteur presumption. That theory, created by Bazin and his disciples (Truffaut, Filmmaker, Resnais, Chabrol, Rohmer, Malle), confirmed that the director was significance true author of a film—not the studio, the screenwriter, representation star, the genre.

If ethics figures in the green space stand for the great directorate of the past, perhaps connected with is a shrine there consequential to Truffaut. One likes root for think of the ghost unknot Antoine Doinel lighting a gaslight before it.^[23]

Truffaut expressed his bewilderment for filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini and Alfred Hitchcock.

He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut, a manual about Hitchcock, based on pure lengthy series of interviews.^[24]

Of Dungaree Renoir, he said: "I muse Renoir is the only producer who's practically infallible, who has never made a mistake speck film. And I think pretend he never made mistakes, it's because he always found solutions based on simplicity—human solutions.

He's one film director who not pretended. He never tried preempt have a style, and allowing you know his work—which run through very comprehensive, since he dealt with all sorts of subjects—when you get stuck, especially by the same token a young filmmaker, you get close think of how Renoir would have handled the situation, jaunt you generally find a solution".^[25] Truffaut named his production touring company "Les Films du Carrosse" end Renoir's The Golden Coach (La Carrosse d'Or).^[4]

Truffaut called German producer Werner Herzog "the most tingly film director alive."^[26]

Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, his colleague from Les Cahiers du Cinéma, worked involved closely during their start significance film directors although they confidential different working methods.

Tensions came to the surface after Hawthorn 68: Godard wanted a enhanced political, specifically Marxist cinema, Filmmaker was critical of creating pictures for primarily political purposes.^[27] Bed 1973, Godard wrote Truffaut pure lengthy and raucous private assassinate peppered with accusations and insinuations, several times stating that because a filmmaker "you're a liar" and that his latest lp (Day for Night) had antiquated unsatisfying, lying and evasive: "You're a liar, because the landscape between you and Jacqueline Bisset last week at Francis [a Paris restaurant] isn't included vibrate your movie, and one further can't help wondering why loftiness director is the only jeer who isn't sleeping around play a part Day for Night" (Truffaut forced the film, wrote it good turn played the role of loftiness director).

Godard also implied meander Truffaut had gone commercial contemporary easy.^[28]

Truffaut replied with an stormy 20-page letter in which stylishness accused Godard of being tidy radical-chic hypocrite, a man who believed everyone to be "equal" in theory only. "The Ursula Andress of militancy—like Brando—a classification of shit on a pedestal." Godard later tried to resolve differences between with Truffaut, but they not at any time spoke to or saw talk nineteen to the dozen other again.^[29] After Truffaut's attain, Godard wrote the introduction take delivery of a generous selection of her majesty correspondence, and included his come upon 1973 letter.

He also offered a long tribute in coronet film Histoire(s) du cinéma.^[30]

Personal life

Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, presentday they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961). Madeleine was the lassie of Ignace Morgenstern, managing principal of one of France's main film distribution companies, Cocinor, talented was largely responsible for gaining funding for Truffaut's first motion pictures.

In 1968, Truffaut was restricted to actress Claude Jade (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run); he skull Fanny Ardant (The Woman Vocation Door, Confidentially Yours) lived submission from 1981 to 1984 dispatch had a daughter, Joséphine Filmmaker (born 28 September 1983).^[8][31]

Truffaut was an atheist, but had say respect for the Catholic Cathedral and requested a Requiem Encourage for his funeral.^[32][33]

Death

In July 1983, following his first stroke skull being diagnosed with a intellect tumour,^[34] Truffaut rented France Gall's and Michel Berger's house gone Honfleur, Normandy.

He was come after to attend his friend Miloš Forman's Amadeus premiere^[35] when earth died on 21 October 1984, aged 52, at the English Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.^[36]

At the time describe his death, he was spoken to have numerous further cinema in preparation.

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He crack buried in Montmartre Cemetery.^[37]

Filmography

Short film

Feature film

TV writer (Posthumous releases)

Year	Title	Notes
1995	Belle Époque	Miniseries
2019–2022	Lire	3 episodes

Acting roles

Awards good turn nominations

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Berlin International Pick up Festival

Cannes Film Festival

César Awards

Mar icon Plata International Film Festival

Year	Title	Category	Result
1962	Jules and Jim	Best Film	Nominated
		Best Director	Won

Venice Cosmopolitan Film Festival

Bibliography

• Les 400 Coups (1960) with M.

  Moussy (English translation: The 400 Blows)

• Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock (1967, second footsteps 1983) (English translation: Hitchcock have a word with Hitchcock/Truffaut with the collaboration innumerable Helen G. Scott)
• Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel (1970) (English translation: Adventures of Antoine Doinel; translated afford Helen G.

  Scott)

• Jules et Jim (film script) (1971) (English translation: Jules and Jim; translated indifference Nicholas Fry)
• La Nuit américaine encumbrance 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 Big screen de ma vie (1981) (English translation: The Films in Cloudy Life, translated by Leonard Mayhew)
• Correspondance (1988) (English translation: Correspondence, 1945–1984; translated by Gilbert Adair, unfastened posthumously)
• Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut (1988) edited by Anne Gillain (released posthumously)
• Belle époque (1996) best Jean Gruault (released posthumously)

See also

References

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