François Truffaut (born the February 6th 1932 with Paris and deceased at 52 years the October 21st 1984 with Neuilly-sur-Seine of a cancer of the brain), film critic, Realizer and actor French. He belongs to the initiators of the movement known as of the New wave .

Biography

Born François Levy, and recognized at the Registry office by Roland Truffaut, architect-decorator, it will not find his biological father, a Dentiste Juif of Mulhouse, that in 1968. His/her mother was Jeanine de Monferrand, secretary with the newspaper the Illustration . François Truffaut makes his studies at the school of the street Clauzel and the college Rollin (currently Lycée Jacques Decour), theater of his first “400 blows”. As of 1939, the young person François Truffaut, impassioned reading, attends also the cinemas, often during the hours of class. Starting from 1946, having left the school, it saw odd jobs, it founds a film club in 1947, some flights are worth to him to be sent to Villejuif in a “reformatory”.

Thanks to the film critic Andre Bazin, François Truffaut is engaged with Travail and Culture . He writes his first articles as of 1950. After being itself committed in the army, sent in Germany, it deserted and made military prison, then is made reform, always thanks to André Bazin. François Truffaut publishes articles for the Books of the cinema in 1953, carries out the following year its first short-measuring, becomes in 1956 assisting of the realizer Roberto Rossellini. This “man who loved the women” Marie in 1957 with Madeleine Morgenstern, girl of a film distributer (Ignace Morgenstern); it carries out Mistons this same year. In 1958, it turns the Four Hundred Blows , which will be an immediate success, opening the door with the movement of the New wave and its world career. In 1968 Truffaut wants to marry with its preferred actress, Claude Jade ( stolen Baisers , marital Home , love in escape ), and reconsiders its decision at the last time. Truffaut and Claude Jade remain however good friends.

Its last love is the actress Fanny Ardant ( Vivement Sunday! , the woman of at side ).

It will connect films until its death which has occurred the October 21st 1984 with Neuilly-sur-Seine of the continuations of a Cancer of the Cerveau. It is buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre to Paris.

To note that François Truffaut appears as actor of several of his films: the green Room , the American Night , the wild Child like in film of Steven Spielberg, admiror of Truffaut, Meetings of the third type in 1977 in the role of the French scientist “Claude Lacombe”.

Work

Among many films of Truffaut , one can detach the series putting in scene Antoine Doinel , under the features of the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, who will begin his career from actor in the Four hundred blows at the fourteen years age, actor fetish and “double” of Truffaut. The series will continue until the Love in escape , while passing by Antoine and Colette sketch of the film the Love at twenty years , but also stolen Baisers and marital Home at the sides of Claude Jade in the role of Christine, friend then woman of Doinel.

Impossible not to evoke the green Room in which François Truffaut incarnates the main role, that of a man which refuses the death of those that it liked and admired. Those continue with " vivre" in the " temple of the mémoire" that it dedicates to them. The cinema of Truffaut, highly reference frame (and autoreferential, which would deserve in oneself an article) is itself a green room.

One of the girls of Truffaut, Eva Truffaut claims to find in 2004 the last scenes of his/her father and product with Elisabeth Butterfly a radiophonic hoax-homage the newspaper of Alphonse , where one finds Christine Doinel (Claude Jade) and his son Alphonse (Stanislas Merhar).

Large reader, François Truffaut will put in scene of many novels:

  • American detective novels ( the bride was in black and the Siren of the Mississippi of William Irish, Vivement Sunday of Charles William, or Tirez on the pianist from David Goodis and also a beautiful girl like me from Henry Farrel);
  • novels of Henri-Pierre Rock Jules and Jim and two English and the continent ;
  • the green Room according to topics of Henry James, his most serious film and deepest;
  • the science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 of Ray Bradbury.
Its literary references are numerous. It is necessary to quote at least two of them: Balzac and Léautaud.

The other films of Truffaut result from original screenplays, often Co-writings with the scenario writers Suzanne Schiffman or Jean Gruault, films on the very diverse subjects, energy of the History of Adele H. , inspired by the life of the girl of Victor Hugo, with Isabelle Adjani, or the Night American , put in abyss and anthem at the cinema rewarded at Hollywood (Oscar of Best Foreign film in 1973), or the Last Subway , being held during the German occupation in France, film rewarded by ten César.

Posterity

François Truffaut will undoubtedly remain one of the references of the French cinema of the XXe century. Today, a realizer as Jean-Paul Civeyrac belongs to the scenario writers who continue to make live the great lessons of cinema of the initiator of the New wave. Jean-Paul Civeyrac assumed this filiation in All these fair promisess (Prix Jean-Vigo 2003) while making play one of the roles of film by Eva Truffaut, the girl of the scenario writer.

François Truffaut will also remain for his books in which it shows an unequalled teaching direction. Among its works, the " Hitchboock" , deliver-maintenance with Alfred Hitchcock, published at Laffont then Ramsay is a bible for which wants to include/understand the cinema, a fortiori to make some.

Some actresses and actors

François Truffaut made turn of many actors:
  • Isabelle Adjani lent her talent to the History of Adele H. ;
  • Fanny Ardant, partner of the last days of François Truffaut, and mother of his Joséphine daughter, turned in the woman of to side and in ultimate film, in black and white, Vivement Sunday! ;
  • Claude Jade was “Christine” at the sides of Jean-Pierre Léaud, in the adventures of Antoine Doinel ( stolen Baisers , marital Home , Love in escape );
  • Nathalie Baye made her beginnings in the role of the scripte of the American Night and was the principal female interpreter of the Green Room and the man who loved the women ;
  • Jacqueline Bisset was the star of the American Night ;
  • Catherine Deneuve played in dark film, at the conclusion melodramatic, the Siren of the Mississippi at the sides of Jean-Paul Belmondo and interpreted the director of the theater Montmartre in the Last Subway , at the sides of Gerard Depardieu;
  • Charles Denner had a role in the bride was in black and was the Man who loved the women (and, paradoxically, the Landru of Claude Chabrol);
  • Bernadette Lafont took part in the first short-measuring of Truffaut, Mistons and was the role titrates a beautiful girl like me ;
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud was revealed by Truffaut; it turned with him a means and six feature-length films;
  • Jean-François Stévenin was him also revealed by Truffaut. He was his assistant and played in " Money of poche"
  • Jeanne Moreau passed to the posterity in Jules and Jim and incarnated the avenger relentless in the bride was in black …
  • Marie-France Pisier in " Antoine and Colette" (short film) and " love in fuite" …

Catalog of films

Actor

Dialogist

  • 1959 : the Four Hundred Blows of François Truffaut
  • 1969: the Siren of the Mississippi of François Truffaut

Producer

Realizer

Scenario writer

Work apocryphal book

  • 2004 : the Newspaper of Alphonse of Elisabeth Butterfly

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