François Truffaut
(1932-1984)
French film director
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François Roland Truffaut (TROO-foh, TRUU-, troo-FOH; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut supplied the story for another milestone of the movement, Breathless (1960), directed by his Cahiers colleague Jean-Luc Godard.
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François Roland Truffaut 6 February 1932 Paris, France
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21 October 1984 (aged 52) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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