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	Francois Truffaut
		Truffaut uses the recurrent theme of cycles throughout the film (as in Anatole Litvak's Goodbye Again).
		Julien Davenne (François Truffaut) is a lonely, disillusioned widower who writes for The Globe, an obsolete, nearly defunct newspaper (with a target audience of elderly people, its subscription base is literally dying).
		François Truffaut uses a color palette that is washed and pale to set the thematic tone of the film (similar techniques are used in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice).
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/truffaut.html (1362 words)

	François Truffaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: [tʀyˈfo]) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French "New Wave" in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry.
		Truffaut was born out of wedlock in Paris, where he was raised by his mother and his adoptive father, Roland Truffaut, both of whom were devout Catholics.
		Truffaut had a difficult childhood that resulted in rebellion against his parents in particular and authority in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francois_Truffaut (1048 words)

	François Truffaut
		Truffaut went on to chronicle Doinel's youth and young adulthood in the "Antoine and Colette" episode of Love at Twenty (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979), all films featuring the same actor, Jean-Pierre Leaud, as Antoine.
		Truffaut died dramatically, arbitrarily of a brain tumor in the American Hospital in Neuilly in 1984.
		He is the father of Laura Truffaut (born 1959) and Eva Truffaut (born 1961), both of whom appeared in their father's film L'Argent de Poche (1975) and whose mother is his former wife, Madeleine Morgenstern; and of Josephine (born 1983), whose mother is Fanny Ardant.
	hitchcock.tv /people/truffaut.html (673 words)

	Francois Truffaut / François Truffaut / films / director / biography / French New Wave / la nouvelle vague
		, Truffaut was diagnosed as having a brain tumour in 1983 and, after a slow decline, died in an American hospital at Neuilly in France on 21 October 1984, at the age of 52.
		The range of subjects in François Truffaut's oeuvre is large, encompassing noirish thriller, romantic comedy, tragic romance, science-fiction, portraits of adolescence and period drama.
		Truffaut was also a great humanist, who supported many worthy causes for children, and this humanity is also an essential element of his films.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_ftruffaut.html (1382 words)

	Francois Truffaut - MSN Encarta
		François Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, a leader of the nouvelle vague (new wave) movement of filmmakers who rejected the slick, impersonal style of studio filmmaking for a more personal approach, in which the director has sole creative authority and is recognized as the author (auteur) of a film.
		Truffaut was strongly influenced by French filmmakers Jean Vigo and Jean Renoir and by English-American director Alfred Hitchcock.
		Several of Truffaut's films are considered to be either influenced by Hitchcock or homages to him—notably The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and Truffaut's last motion picture, Confidentially Yours (1983).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576248/Francois_Truffaut.html (296 words)

	Francois Truffaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		François Truffaut's dramatization of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer is a cinematically beautiful and emotionally wrenching portrait of a headstrong but unstable young woman.
		Truffaut said he wanted to "make not a film on physical love, but a physical film on love." He teases and taunts, making pastoral scenes erotic and erotic scenes pastoral and never loses momentum or weight with the story.
		Truffaut's comic confection is full of deadpan gags and screwball chaos, a world away from the heavy seriousness of The 400 Blows, and Léaud is endearingly naive as the determined Doinel, forging ahead with more pluck and passion than aptitude.
	www.francoistruffaut.com /films.html (3740 words)

	The religion of Francois Truffaut, film director
		Truffaut claimed that he got married only at a town hall (with no larger ceremony, religious or otherwise) because his bride was from a family of Hungarian Jews, and his own family was Catholic.
		In his late teens, Truffaut was so obsessive about watching films that he ended up jailed for many months after stealing property from his place of work to sell to raise money to pay for film screenings, and for failing to pay back money for film rentals and ads he placed to promote screenings.
		For Helen Scott, of course, was in love with Truffaut, while he saw her as a caring "Jewish mother," with a marvelous sense of humor, but not at all as a mistress.
	www.adherents.com /people/pt/Francois_Truffaut.html (3608 words)

	Francois Truffaut Review
		Truffaut elicits an amazing performance from Jean-Pierre Cargol who is totally convincing as a child experiencing the most common things for the first time.
		Truffaut may have imitated Hitchcock's technique but his humanistic approach owes more to Jean Renoir, son of the famous impressionist painter and creator of such film masterpieces as "Grand Illusion" (1937) and "Rules of the Game" (1939).
		Truffaut plays a harried director, offering insights into how he worked, coping with high-strung actors and using events from everyday life to enrich his art.
	webpages.charter.net /jbunin/files/reviews/truffaut.html (951 words)

	Bazin & Truffaut
		Truffaut himself came from a somewhat unstable background, experienced confusion as to his origins, never met his true biological father, and in his adolescence and early adulthood was in regular conflict with authority, often in custody, a fugitive, or considering or attempting suicide.
		Truffaut, who had a stepfather and also, as previously alluded to, had a living biological father whom he never met, saw Bazin as a sort of substitute or supplemental father and freely acknowledged throughout his life that André Bazin had saved him from an unproductive or self-destructive life.
		Truffaut's films are often bittersweet, mixing the light and the dark, sadness and humor.
	www.unofficialbaziniantrib.com /bazin_and_truffaut.htm (1012 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Francois Truffaut
		Truffaut was still in his 20s when he formulated the auteur theory, the idea that a director is the "author" of his films (an idea that is somewhat taken for granted--even taken to excess--today).
		At the time, we learn in Truffaut, his attack on the cynicism of the French film industry was seen by some as right wing, and, indeed, Truffaut began his career as a conservative, largely in response to the dogmatically Communist cultural establishment.
		Truffaut was 28 when he demonstrated his conception of a new cinema with the groundbreaking The 400 Blows, based on Truffaut's own bitter adolescence as a neglected, somewhat hapless juvenile delinquent.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.10.99/truffaut1-9923.html (1127 words)

	Truffaut, François Criticism and Essays
		Truffaut is both the formulator and one of the most skilled practitioners of the auteur theory of filmmaking which holds that the film's director should be the commanding presence in the work, responsible for script as well as direction.
		Truffaut's childhood was unhappy, like that of his alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in The 400 Blows.
		Truffaut's recent films are less autobiographical, although in Day for Night, Truffaut played himself as a director.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/truffaut-francois (328 words)

	Francois Truffaut
		Truffaut ended up angering many people with his bombastic film criticism, as he castigated well-respected French filmmakers of the time for using the screen as a mere repository for theatrical and literary adaptations, instead of creating new filmic art.
		Although Truffaut was not a political filmmaker like his cohort Godard (a fact briefly alluded to in Day for Night), he’d always voiced disdain for bourgeois attitudes in both his life and in his writings.
		Truffaut married at a young age and convinced his wealthy father-in-law to bankroll his early films.
	www89.homepage.villanova.edu /elana.starr/pages/truffaut.htm (1607 words)

	Film Focus--The Director's Chair (Francois Truffaut)
		From that time until his untimely death in 1984, Truffaut created a remarkable body of work which was drawn extensively from his personal experiences.
		Loved and admired by many, condemed by those who envied his commercial success and the un-revolutionary "sweetness" at the heart of his films, all would nevertheless agree that he was a man consumed by his craft, a man for whom, to paraphrase the title of his collection of film criticism, films were his life.
		Truffaut: Les Mille at Une Nuits Americaines, by Dominque Auzel.
	sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us /advisor/fftruffaut.htm (379 words)

	Truffaut, Mon Ami
		Truffaut was a 27-year-old film critic when he knocked the world on its ear in 1959 with The 400 Blows —; still one of the most galvanizing debuts in movie history.
		Beginning with his hatred of his mother, Truffaut’s tortured relationship with women is a story unto itself, one which Moreau views with ambiguity tempered by love.
		It was in Moreau that Truffaut found the fullest embodiment of his ambivalent attraction-repulsion to strong and independent women.
	citypaper.net /articles/070199/ae.movies.truffaut.shtml (1347 words)

	Truffaut's The 400 Blows
		From the moment Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959) is previewed out of competition along with Rossellini's India (1958) and Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) on May 4th 1959 at Cannes, Truffaut is triumphant as one of the leading archetypal luminaries of the French New Wave Cinema.
		The charm and poignancy of Truffaut's films belie their complex cinephilic formation in the '50s when Truffaut was a rebellious school truant film buff stealing away to the darkened anonymity of a movie theatre with its strong clandestine seductive appeal.
		Truffaut's life and cinema sum up the intricate complexities of a seminal European auteur whose films form a trajectory from a rebellious boy to a mature literary-inflected filmmaker whose existential vision of creativity, human emotions and social reality encapsulates a highly sympathetic and passionate belief in the utopian possibilities of love and understanding.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/6/blows.html (1950 words)

	Truffaut's 400 Blows brilliantly evokes troubled youth
		Truffaut had a similar childhood, and was eventually sent to a reformatory.
		Truffaut began to rewrite Antoine, and found an active collaborator in his young actor.
		Truffaut surrounds him with many capable actors, and films with such a casual but assured style that it frequently seems more documentary than fiction.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N10/blows.10a.html (701 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		Truffaut released his first feature film, "The 400 Blows" ("Les Quatre Cent Coups"), in 1959, and it quickly became an international hit with both critics and the public, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for best direction and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best foreign-language film.
		Truffaut took his camera out of the studio and into the streets of Paris, coaxed naturalistic, improvised dialogue from his young actors and showed adolescence as a frightening and cruel experience in which authority figures such as teachers and parents tried to crush the spirit of young people.
		By the time Truffaut reached his early 20s, he was already a well-known and ambitious film critic, while Antoine is a scattered, somewhat immature young man bouncing from job to job (night clerk in a hotel, operative at a private detective agency, television repairman).
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/dvd_video/truffaut.html (1289 words)

	"Tout Truffaut" - Salon
		The cliché of Truffaut's career is that he became the sort of bourgeois entertainer he decried as a young film critic.
		In their fine new biography "Truffaut," Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana suggest the director was dealing with his own infidelities and perhaps the experience was too painful, too close to home.
		Truffaut the critic has things to answer for, namely the blinkered hero-worshipping auteur theory, and the criticism collected in his essential "The Films in My Life" often reveals very bad judgments.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/feature/1999/04/22/truffaut/?pn=2 (770 words)

	The films of François Truffaut David Walsh reviews a program of the filmmaker's works at the Detroit Film Theatre
		Truffaut was born as “the result of an unwanted and illegitimate pregnancy” (François Truffaut, Diana Holmes and Robert Ingram, 1998) His mother, Janine de Montferrand, came from an aristocratic family; 21 months after her son's birth she married Roland Truffaut, an architect's assistant.
		Truffaut made the film at least in part to argue against various forms of libertarianism and anti-intellectualism so much in vogue in radical circles in France and elsewhere at the time.
		Truffaut and the others were no doubt correct in many, although not all, of their arguments, but there is something limited and distorted about the entire debate.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/oct1999/truf-o25.shtml (3534 words)

	François Truffaut
		Truffaut was released under conditional liberty to be interned in a religious home in Versailles, from which he was expelled six months later due to bad behaviour.
		Truffaut's wife had obtained a divorce in 1965, so it was not difficult to suppose that Antoine and his spouse were going to experience something similar.
		Truffaut cared dearly about Adele's character and one can hear his voice in some of Adele's dialogue, for example in the line, "I was born of an unknown father".
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/truffaut.html (5844 words)

	Amazon.com: Truffaut: A Biography: Books: Serge Toubiana,Antoine De Baecque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Truffaut was notorious for bedding beautiful women, usually actresses in his films, but every relationship (with the exception of that with his divorced wife, Madeleine, who was as loyal as he was faithless) was brief.
		Truffauts courage failed him; rather than introduce himself, he fled to the darkness of a nearby cinema and watched an old Chaplin film.
		Truffaut's childhood is exposed as sadder, but possibly less harsh than his image (and The 400 Blows) suggest.
	www.amazon.com /Truffaut-Biography-Serge-Toubiana/dp/0375400893 (1924 words)

	François Truffaut
		Truffaut: A Biography, by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana (current editors of Cahiers du cinéma), will be published this April by Knopf.
		Truffaut himself described star Jean-Pierre Léaud as "more aggressive, less submissive" than the character he imagined; and as the series progressed, "Doinel," moving from j.d.
		Truffaut's attack on conventional treatments of adultery emphasized the practical difficulties of dalliance, the personal anguish, even the ridiculousness of leaving a more-passionate-then-a-mistress wife.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/truffaut.html (616 words)

	François Truffaut \| TIME Europe Magazine \| 60 Years of Heroes
		Truffaut's passion for cinema, the desire that it stirred in him, animates every movie he ever made, every scene, every shot.
		Back in the early and mid-'60s, people were always talking about how this movie "quoted" from that older movie, but what almost no one talked about was why the quote was there, what it did or didn't do for the movie, what it meant emotionally to the picture as a whole.
		In Truffaut, you could feel the awareness of film history behind the camera, but you could also see that every single choice he made was grounded in the emotional reality of the picture.
	www.time.com /time/europe/hero2006/truffaut.html (575 words)

	American University Library - Francois Truffaut
		Truffaut explores the range of emotions from humour and fantasy to the serious side of life in this exploration of feelings.
		Francis Truffaut's "homage to moviemaking," details the loves and lunacy of the closely-knit family of strangers that comprises an on-location film, cast and crew.
		Esprit critique François Truffaut, the critical spirit Critical spirit François Truffaut, or, the mind of a critic Mind of a critic.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/media/truffaut.html (1326 words)

	AllRefer.com - FranCois Truffaut (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was one of the first of the "new wave" directors of the late 1950s and 60s to make films that were less studio-bound and script-dominated.
		Truffaut's films are noted for their surface charm, which often masks a highly ironic, even bitter, undercurrent.
		Truffaut collected his criticism in The Films in My Life (1975; tr.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Truffaut.html (329 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Tout Truffaut" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Whatever the reason, people went to a Truffaut film not in the way that audiences today turn out for whatever new indie director -- good or bad -- happens to be hot at the moment, but with a mix of eagerness and expectation and, there's no way of getting around it, love.
		But at their most lyrical -- and Truffaut was one of the three or four most lyrical filmmakers the movies have given us -- Truffaut's films made you feel as if the sun were singing to you.
		For Truffaut and his compatriots in the nouvelle vague, the ambition to capture a poeticized vision of life as it is lived was not so much a break with tradition as a way to resume the tradition, interrupted by war, of French films of the '30s.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/1999/04/22/truffaut (522 words)

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