The films of
François Truffaut
Les Mistons (1957)
François Truffaut 		  Les Quatre cents coups (1959)
François Truffaut 		  Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
François Truffaut 		 
     
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...]  
Une histoire d'eau (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Antoine et Colette (1962)
François Truffaut 		  Jules et Jim (1962)
François Truffaut 		 
     
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...]  
La Peau douce (1964)
François Truffaut 		  Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
François Truffaut 		  La Mariée était en Noir (1967)
François Truffaut 		 
     
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...]  
Baisers volés (1968)
François Truffaut 		  L'Enfant sauvage (1969)
François Truffaut 		  La Sirène du Mississippi (1969)
François Truffaut 		 
     
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 conjugale (1970)
François Truffaut 		  Les Deux Anglaises et le continent (1971)
François Truffaut 		  Une belle fille comme moi (1972)
François Truffaut 		 
     
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...]  

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