Probably the most entertaining film ever made about film making, La nuit amércaine
was a triumph for film director François Truffaut. Not only is this a
great film... [More...]
Based on the diaries of Adèle Hugo, the film traces the course of an impossible
obsessive love with compassion but without sentimentality. François Truffaut
tackled this theme expertly in a number of his... [More...]
In between his lavish period dramas and romantic comedies, François Truffaut made
a slight detour in the mid-1970s with this almost documentary-style portrait of young
school children at play in a small provincial... [More...]
Witty, incisive and masterfully narrated, L’Homme qui aimait les femmes is one
of François Truffaut’s most entertaining films, but it is also one his most introspective
and melancholic... [More...]
La Chambre verte is among the least widely known films in François Truiffaut’s
impresive filmography, but is almost certainly his most personal film... [More...]
With L’Amour en fuite, the fifth and final instalment in the Antoine Doinel saga,
François Truffaut closes the book on his favourite character... [More...]
Despite strong performances from Depardieu and Deneuve, Le dernier metro is not
quite in the league of Truffaut’s more memorable films. The repetition of the rehearsal
scenes and the claustrophobic nature of the... [More...]
For his last but one film, François Truffaut returns to a subject which was always
close to his heart – the capacity of an intense amorous passion to take over and ultimately
wreck the lives of its subjects... [More...]
François Truffaut’s last film is a pleasing résumé of his cinema
work, and certainly an entertaining film in its own right... [More...]
