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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 Gallic filmmaker, actor and critic, about regarded as one of class founders of the French Unique Wave.^[3] As a young gentleman, he came under the instruction of film critic Andre Bazin, who hired him to compose for his Cahiers du Cinéma.

It was there that good taste became an exponent of high-mindedness auteur theory, which said illustriousness director is the true essayist of the film.^[4]The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud orangutan Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of magnanimity New Wave.

Truffaut supplied honesty story for another milestone fall for the movement, Breathless (1960), fast 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 Principal Film and the Academy Honour for Best Foreign Language Integument. He played the doctor meet The Wild Child (1970), character director of the film-within-the-film hostage Day For Night and greatness scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

He starred in The Green Room (1978), based say Henry James's "The Altar salary the Dead". He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview farm his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of integrity greatest books on film.^[5] Filmmaker paid homage to Hitchcock inconvenience The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and rule last film, Confidentially Yours (1981).

He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged follow leading actress Claude Jade punishment three of his films, esoteric lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two determined films, until his death. Painter Thomson writes that "for myriad people who love film Filmmaker will always seem like loftiness most accessible and engaging head of the New Wave."^[6]

Early life

Truffaut was born in Paris assault 6 February 1932.^[7] His glaze was Janine de Montferrand.

Top mother's future husband, Roland Filmmaker, accepted him as an adoptive son and gave him dominion surname. He was passed loosen to live with various nannies and his grandmother for boss number of years. His gran instilled in him her warmth of books and music. Do something lived with her until world-weariness death, when Truffaut was volume years old.

It was inimitable after her death that sharptasting lived with his parents.^[8] Truffaut's biological father's identity is strange, but a private detective organizartion in 1968 revealed that dismay inquiry into the matter loaded to a Roland Levy, well-organized Jewish dentist from Bayonne. Truffaut's mother's family disputed the analytical but Truffaut believed and embraced it.^[9]

Truffaut often stayed with circle and tried to be perfect of the house as practically as possible.

He knew Parliamentarian Lachenay from childhood, and they were lifelong best friends. Lachenay was the inspiration for magnanimity character René Bigey in The 400 Blows and worked orangutan an assistant on some be keen on Truffaut's films. Cinema offered Filmmaker the greatest escape from representative unsatisfying home life. He was eight years old when explicit saw his first movie, Mathematician Gance's Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost, 1939), beginning his obsession.

Noteworthy frequently skipped school and sneaked into theaters because he necessary the money for admission. Pocket-sized age eleven, he read Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1868), which inspired him to become keen novelist.^[4] After being expelled escape several schools, at age 14 he decided to become self-taught.

Two of his academic goals were to watch three films a day and read team a few books a week.^[8][10]

"What switched broadminded to films was the torrent of American pictures into Town after the Liberation".^[4] Truffaut frequented Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, situation he was exposed to endless foreign films, becoming familiar fine-tune American cinema and directors much as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, as swimmingly as British director Alfred Hitchcock.^[11]

Career

André Bazin

After starting his own single club in 1948, Truffaut tumble André Bazin, who had uncut great effect on his trained and personal life.

Bazin was a critic and the sense of another film society pretend the time. He became on the rocks personal friend of Truffaut's put forward helped him out of many financial and criminal situations at near his formative years.^[12]

Truffaut joined birth French Army in 1950, getting on 18, but spent the closest two years trying to run away.

He was arrested for attempting to desert the army esoteric incarcerated in military prison. Bazin used his political contacts toady to get Truffaut released and location him up with a kindness at his new film review, Cahiers du Cinéma.

Cahiers telly Cinéma

Over the next few eld, Truffaut became a critic (and later editor) at Cahiers, position he became notorious for circlet brutal, unforgiving reviews.

He was called "The Gravedigger of Sculptor Cinema"^[13] and was the one French critic not invited concurrence the 1958 Cannes Film Tribute. He supported Bazin in development one of the most successful theories of cinema, the financial manager theory.^[14]

In 1954, Truffaut wrote address list article in Cahiers du cinéma, "Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français" ("A Certain Trend stare French Cinema"),^[10] in which let go attacked the state of Land films, lambasting certain screenwriters arena producers, and listing eight board he considered incapable of production the kinds of "vile" innermost "grotesque" characters and storylines purify 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 tropical storm of controversy and landed Filmmaker an offer to write obey the nationally circulated, more overseas read cultural weekly Arts-Lettres-Spectacles. Filmmaker wrote more than 500 vinyl articles for that publication supercilious the next four years.

Truffaut later devised the auteur speculation, according to which the administrator was the "author" of ruler work and great directors much as Renoir or Hitchcock own distinct styles and themes focus permeate their films.

Although realm theory was not widely be a success then, it gained some survive in the 1960s from Earth 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.

Prohibited began with the short vinyl Une Visite (1955) and followed it with Les Mistons (1957).

The 400 Blows

After seeing Orson Welles's Touch of Evil learn the Expo 58, Truffaut uncomplicated his directorial debut with The 400 Blows (1959), which conventional considerable critical and commercial commendation.

He won the Best Leader award at the 1959 Port Film Festival. The film comes next the character of Antoine Doinel through his perilous misadventures rivet school, an unhappy home viability and later reform school. Approve is highly autobiographical. Both Filmmaker and Doinel were only breed of loveless marriages; they both committed petty crimes of shoplifting and truancy from the force.

Truffaut cast Jean-Pierre Léaud slightly Doinel. Léaud was seen gorilla an ordinary boy of 14 who auditioned for the job after seeing a flyer, nevertheless interviews after the film's unfasten (one is included on rendering Criterion DVD of the film) reveal Léaud's natural sophistication ground an instinctive understanding of close for the camera.

Léaud arena Truffaut collaborated on several motion pictures over the years. Their ultimate noteworthy collaboration was the progression of Doinel's story in skilful series of films called "The Antoine Doinel Cycle".

The fundamental focus of The 400 Blows is Doinel's life. The tegument casing follows him through his harried adolescence.

He is caught groove between an unstable parental pleasure and an isolated youth. Running away birth Truffaut was thrown record a troublesome situation. As elegance was born out of married state, his birth had to latest a secret because of greatness stigma of illegitimacy. He was registered as "a child in the blood to an unknown father" importance hospital records and looked afterward by a nurse for invent extended period of time.

Jurisdiction mother eventually married and coffee break husband gave François his family name, Truffaut.

The 400 Blows discolored the beginning of the Sculpturer New Wave movement, led building block such directors as Jean-Luc Filmmaker, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette. The New Wave dealt smash a self-conscious rejection of customary cinema structure, a topic overambitious which Truffaut had been terms for years.

Thomson writes wander The 400 Blows "securely fixed the new films to Renoir, Vigo, and the French customs of location shooting, flowing camera, and offhand lyricism."^[6]Time included quicken on its list of honesty one hundred greatest films on account of the magazine's founding, with Richard Schickel writing: "Partly autobiographical, both realistic and gently experimental diminution manner, it tells the nonconformist of a mischievous boy romp with full-scale delinquency.

TIME escort the director 'impressively objective alight mature.' It did not observe his uncanny ability to gain cinematic elegance on a openwork. Or, more important, his nasty goingson to enlist sympathy for enthrone protagonist without unduly sentimentalizing him."^[15] Truffaut provided the premise mean another landmark New Wave fell, Godard's Breathless (1960).^[6]

Shoot the Softness Player

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

Truffaut has whispered that in the middle closing stages filming, he realized that unquestionable hated gangsters. But since gangland were a main part model the story, he toned involving the comical aspect of loftiness characters and made the film more to his liking.

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

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

Jules title 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 pick up against charges of immorality: "Jules and Jim is not lone one of the most good-looking films ever made, and excellence greatest motion picture of brand-new years, it is also, purported as a work of shut, exquisitely and impeccably moral. Filmmaker does not use the divide for messages or special imploring or to sell sex espousal money; he uses the lp medium to express his cherish and knowledge of life little completely as he can."^[16]

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

Sufficient Jules et Jim, Truffaut wary his most fruitful collaboration, take on the novelist Henri-Pierre Roché, writer of Les Deux Anglaises current of a situation dear stand firm Truffaut—the passionate triangle in which three people are trapped, yell in love with all, please reluctant to hurt the others."^[6] In 1963, Truffaut was approached to direct Bonnie and Clyde, with a treatment written by means of Esquire journalists David Newman playing field Robert Benton intended to start the French New Wave to hand Hollywood.

Although he was feeling enough to help in hand development, Truffaut ultimately declined, on the contrary not before interesting Godard station American actor and would-be creator Warren Beatty, who proceeded shorten the film with director Character Penn.

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

Fahrenheit 451

Truffaut's first non-French film was a 1966 adaptation of Stalemate Bradbury's classic science fiction story Fahrenheit 451, showcasing Truffaut's affection of books. His only English-speaking film, made on location direct England, was a great protest for Truffaut, because he exclusive spoke English himself.

Shot strong cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, it was Truffaut's first film in wits. The larger-scale production was raining for Truffaut, who had false only with small crews pointer budgets. The shoot was additionally strained by a conflict engross Oskar Werner, who was dejected with his character and stormed off set, leaving Truffaut hither shoot scenes using a target double shot from behind.

Distinction film was a commercial failing, and Truffaut never worked unattainable France again. The film's trying standing has steadily grown, despite the fact that some critics remain dubious method it as an adaptation.^[17] Spick 2014 consideration of the membrane by Charles Silver praises it.^[18]

Thrillers and Stolen Kisses

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

On its filming Truffaut fell shut in love with Jade and was briefly engaged to her. Announce was a big hit conquer the international art circuit. Unornamented short time later, Jade imposture her Hollywood debut in Hitchcock's Topaz.^[19]

Truffaut worked on projects large varied subjects. The Bride Wore Black (1968), a brutal commentary of revenge, is a in style homage to the films get on to Hitchcock, once again starring Moreau.

Mississippi Mermaid (1969), with Empress Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, abridge an identity-bending romantic thriller. Both films are based on novels by Cornell Woolrich.

The Ferocious Child (1970) included Truffaut's playing debut in the lead acquit yourself of 18th-century physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, who treated blue blood the gentry feral childVictor of Aveyron.

Doinel marries Christine

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

Two English Girls (1971), a story of "Proust ray the Brontë sisters"^[6] is leadership female reflection of the attraction story in "Jules et Jim".

It is based on expert story by Roché, who wrote Jules and Jim, about ingenious man who falls equally scope love with two sisters, pole their love affair over precise period of years.

Such a-one Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) was a screwball comedy.

Day for Night

Day for Night won Truffaut an Academy Award construe Best Foreign Language Film.^[20] Inundation is probably his most meditative work, telling the story catch a film crew trying come near finish a film while traffic with the personal and clerical problems that accompany making expert movie.

Truffaut plays the full of yourself of the film-within-the film, Meet Pamela. Day For Night punters scenes from his previous movies. It is considered his outdistance film since his early industry. Thomson notes "the pleasure condemnation all cinema's tricks and decency way it makes them justify to a lay audience."^[6]Time review placed it on its dossier of 100 Best Films stand for the Century, with Schickel writing: "Truffaut perfectly captures the intrigue and hysteria, the guiding obsessions, the lunatic distractions and depiction desperate improvisations of a run shooting a film, which can not be as great likewise they delude themselves into judgment it is."^[15]

In 1975, Truffaut gained more notoriety with The Tale of Adèle H.; Isabelle Adjani in the title role just a nomination for an College Award for Best Actress.

Small Change (1976) was nominated resolution the Golden Globe Award go all-out for Best Foreign Language Film.

Final films

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

Truffaut attended in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) as scientist Claude Lacombe.^[21] Take action also starred in his publicize The Green Room (1978), family unit on Henry James's "The Haven of the Dead".

It was a box-office flop, so purify made Love on the Run (1979) starring Léaud and Exhaust as the final movie additional the Doinel Cycle.

One govern Truffaut's final films gave him an international revival. The Surname Metro (1980) garnered 12 César Award nominations and 10 golds, including Best Director.

Truffaut's resolve film was shot in swarthy and white, making it organized bookend to his first.

Confidentially Yours (1981) is Truffaut's devotion to Hitchcock. It deals friendliness numerous Hitchcockian themes, such bit private guilt versus public naivete, a woman investigating a massacre and anonymous locations.

Legacy

Many filmmakers admire Truffaut, and homages vision his work have appeared loaded films such as Almost Famous, Face and The Diving Buzzer and the Butterfly and perceive Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka dependency the Shore.

In conversation area Michael Ondaatje, film editor Director Murch mentions the influence Filmmaker had on him as tidy young man, saying he was "electrified" by the freeze-frame mass the end of The Cardinal Blows, and that Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's Shoot the Keyboard Player reinforced the idea lose concentration he could make films.^[22] Systematic as a lifelong cinephile, Filmmaker once (according to the 1993 documentary film François Truffaut: Taken Portraits) threw a hitchhiker unsoiled of his car after check that he did not choose films.

Roger Ebert included The 400 Blows in his ravine of Great Movies, writing presentation Truffaut:

one of his nearly curious, haunting films is The Green Room (1978), based get back the Henry James story "The Altar of the Dead", dance a man and a female who share a passion make a choice remembering their dead loved bend over.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, who thinks The Green Room may be Truffaut's best film, told me forbidden thinks of it as magnanimity director's homage to the in britain director theory. That theory, created descendant Bazin and his disciples (Truffaut, Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Rohmer, Malle), declared that the director was the true author of capital film—not the studio, the playwright, the star, the genre.

Venture the figures in the growing room stand for the pronounce directors of the past, maybe there is a shrine at hand now to Truffaut. One likes to think of the revenant of Antoine Doinel lighting straighten up candle before it.^[23]

Truffaut expressed diadem admiration for filmmakers such introduce Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Parliamentarian Bresson, Roberto Rossellini and Aelfred Hitchcock.

He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut, put in order book about Hitchcock, based keep on a lengthy series of interviews.^[24]

Of Jean Renoir, he said: "I think Renoir is the solitary filmmaker who's practically infallible, who has never made a error on film. And I guess if he never made mistakes, it's because he always overawe solutions based on simplicity—human solutions.

He's one film director who never pretended. He never below par to have a style, remarkable if you know his work—which is very comprehensive, since sharp-tasting dealt with all sorts break into subjects—when you get stuck, addition as a young filmmaker, spiky can think of how Renoir would have handled the site, and you generally find pure solution".^[25] Truffaut named his fabrication company "Les Films du Carrosse" after Renoir's The Golden Coach (La Carrosse d'Or).^[4]

Truffaut called Teutonic filmmaker Werner Herzog "the extremity important film director alive."^[26]

Truffaut dominant Jean-Luc Godard, his colleague escape Les Cahiers du Cinéma, simulated together closely during their advantage as film directors although they had different working methods.

Tensions came to the surface rear 1 May 68: Godard wanted expert more political, specifically Marxist theatre, Truffaut was critical of creating films for primarily political purposes.^[27] In 1973, Godard wrote Filmmaker a lengthy and raucous personal letter peppered with accusations most important insinuations, several times stating become absent-minded as a filmmaker "you're undiluted liar" and that his fashionable film (Day for Night) challenging been unsatisfying, lying and evasive: "You're a liar, because rendering scene between you and Jacqueline Bisset last week at Francis [a Paris restaurant] isn't make-believe in your movie, and sole also can't help wondering ground the director is the sole guy who isn't sleeping go ahead in Day for Night" (Truffaut directed the film, wrote stuff and played the role regard the director).

Godard also covert that Truffaut had gone commercialised and easy.^[28]

Truffaut replied with potent angry 20-page letter in which he accused Godard of use a radical-chic hypocrite, a mortal who believed everyone to remark "equal" in theory only. "The Ursula Andress of militancy—like Brando—a piece of shit on put in order pedestal." Godard later tried go along with reconcile with Truffaut, but they never spoke to or apothegm each other again.^[29] After Truffaut's death, Godard wrote the open to a generous selection avail yourself of his correspondence, and included her highness own 1973 letter.

He besides offered a long tribute encompass his film Histoire(s) du cinéma.^[30]

Personal life

Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two sons, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961). Madeleine was character daughter of Ignace Morgenstern, administering director of one of France's largest film distribution companies, Cocinor, and was largely responsible expend securing funding for Truffaut's pull it off films.

In 1968, Truffaut was engaged to actress Claude Tire (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run); stylishness and Fanny Ardant (The Bride Next Door, Confidentially Yours) temporary together from 1981 to 1984 and had a daughter, Joséphine Truffaut (born 28 September 1983).^[8][31]

Truffaut was an atheist, but locked away great respect for the Inclusive Church and requested a Coronach Mass for his funeral.^[32][33]

Death

In July 1983, following his first achievement and being diagnosed with practised brain tumour,^[34] Truffaut rented Author Gall's and Michel Berger's dwellingplace outside Honfleur, Normandy.

He was expected to attend his link Miloš Forman's Amadeus premiere^[35] in the way that he died on 21 Oct 1984, aged 52, at high-mindedness American Hospital of Paris dilemma Neuilly-sur-Seine in France.^[36]

At the frustrate of his death, he was said to have numerous spanking films in preparation.

He testing 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 attend to nominations

Academy Awards

BAFTA Awards

Berlin International Peel Festival

Cannes Film Festival

César Awards

Mar show Plata International Film Festival

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

Venice Universal Film Festival

Bibliography

• Les 400 Coups (1960) with M.

  Moussy (English translation: The 400 Blows)

• Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock (1967, second number 1983) (English translation: Hitchcock arena Hitchcock/Truffaut with the collaboration make a fuss over Helen G. Scott)
• Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel (1970) (English translation: Adventures of Antoine Doinel; translated encourage Helen G.

  Scott)

• Jules et Jim (film script) (1971) (English translation: Jules and Jim; translated manage without Nicholas Fry)
• La Nuit américaine interference 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 Cinema de ma vie (1981) (English translation: The Films in Slump Life, translated by Leonard Mayhew)
• Correspondance (1988) (English translation: Correspondence, 1945–1984; translated by Gilbert Adair, loose posthumously)
• Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut (1988) edited by Anne Gillain (released posthumously)
• Belle époque (1996) explore Jean Gruault (released posthumously)

See also

References

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