François Truffaut’s first commercial film Les Mistons marks a definitive
turning point in French cinema history. By the mid to late 1950s... [More...]
One of the best-loved and most memorable of all French films, Les quatre cents coups
established François Truffaut as a great film director and launched the acting
career of Jean-Pierre Léaud.
This is... [More...]
With one successful film (Les
quatre cents coups) under his belt, director François Truffaut was free
to indulge himself in two of his personal passions... [More...]
Shortly after making his first commercial film, Les Mistons, in 1958, François
Truffaut decided to make a short documentary film about the floods being experienced by
Paris at the time... [More...]
Shortly after completing work on Jules et Jim, François Truffaut was commissioned
by the producer Pierre Roustang to contribute a short film segment to his anthology L’Amour
à vingt ans... [More...]
Widely acknowledged as a masterpiece and probably the most popular of the New Wave French
films of the early 1960s, Jules et Jim is François Truffaut’s enchanting
ode to love and friendship... [More...]
Coming straight after Truffaut’s superlative Jules et Jim, La Peau Douce
is another tragic love triangle in a similar mould. Whilst not as emotionally
charged as the earlier film... [More...]
Fahrenheit 451 is a fairly faithful adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel of the same
name, and conveys the same message about the value of the written word with as much
force and conviction... [More...]
In the mid-1950s, few film directors made a greater impression on the
controversial young critics on the French film review paper Les Cahiers du cinéma than a
certain Alfred Hitchcock... [More...]
Six years after Antoine Doinel appeared in the Antoine et Colette segment of the
compendium film L’Amour à vingt ans, François Truffaut
felt the time was right to resurrect his famous alter ego... [More...]
When this film was released in France in 1970, it was not only a surprising success with
both the critics and the paying public (Truffaut himself believed the film would flop
because of its austere... [More...]
The film in which French New Wave director François Truffaut shows most clearly
his love of American pulp fiction and the suspense-thriller genre is very probably La
Sirène du Mississippi... [More...]
Domicile conjugal is the fourth, and arguably the most humorous, installment in
François Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle of films... [More...]
This is one of Truffaut’s most intense and sombre films about romantic love. He
made the film a short while after actress Catherine Deneuve put an end to their two-year
long love affair... [More...]
Une belle fille comme moi is François Truffaut’s first and only sortie
into black comedy, a film that is in marked contrast to his earlier films... [More...]
