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François Truffaut

Highest Rated: 100% The Wild Child (1970)

Lowest Rated: 40% The Green Room (1978)

Birthday: Feb 6, 1932

Birthplace: Paris, France

His academic demeanor and quiet professionalism masked a childhood scarred by abandonment and anger, but the films of François Truffaut - from his auspicious debut with "The 400 Blows" in 1959 to his stylish Hitchcock homage "Confidentially Yours" in 1983 - told the whole of the story through the protective prism of cinema. As a child, Truffaut took solace in the movie houses of Nazi-occupied Paris, where his psyche was sculpted by cinema. A high school dropout, he founded his own film society at the age of 16. Encouraged by film theorist André Bazin, Truffaut began contributing essays and reviews to the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, where he excoriated bourgeois French filmmakers while lauding certain Hollywood studio directors as true auteurs. Lauded at home alongside such other nouvelle vague figureheads as Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, Truffaut was acclaimed also in the United States, where "Shoot the Piano Player" (1960), "Jules and Jim" (1962) and "Stolen Kisses" (1968) charmed American critics and art house audiences alike and where "Day for Night" (1973) and "The Story of Adele H." (1975) won Academy Awards. Truffaut's death from a brain tumor in 1984 robbed international cinema of one of its great practitioners, as well as a brilliant decoder of complex human emotions both writ large and up close and personal.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 81% The Wild Child
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100% 78% Me
Watchlist 99% 94% The 400 Blows Watchlist
98% 91% Day for Night
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97% 89% Stolen Kisses
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95% 90% Breathless
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94% 89% Jules and Jim
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93% 80% The Story of Adele H
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90% 86% Small Change
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90% 88% Shoot the Piano Player
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François Truffaut

François Truffaut THE WILD CHILD, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, 1969 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Francois Truffaut, 1977 FAHRENHEIT 451, Francois Truffaut directing Oskar Werner in a scene, 1966 MISSISSIPPI MERMAID, (aka LA SIRENE DU MISSISSIPPI), Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Francois Truffaut, on set in Paris, 1969 SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER, (aka "Tirez sur le Pianiste") Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, 1960 THE GREEN ROOM, Francois Truffaut, 1978 THE WILD CHILD, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, 1969 THE WILD CHILD, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, 1969 THE WILD CHILD, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, 1969 View more photos

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Two in the Wave 66% 51% 2009 Self Confidentially Yours 78% 79% 1983 Director, Writer The Woman Next Door 85% 86% 1981 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Last Metro 88% 80% 1980 Director, Writer, Writer, Producer Love on the Run 62% 70% 1979 Director, Writer, Producer The Green Room 40% 54% 1978 Julien Davenne Actor, Director, Writer, Producer The Man Who Loved Women 82% 85% 1977 Director, Writer Close Encounters of the Third Kind 90% 85% 1977 Claude Lacombe Actor Small Change 90% 86% 1976 Director The Story of Adele H 93% 80% 1975 Director Day for Night 98% 91% 1973 Director Ferrand Actor, Director, Writer Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me 63% 1972 Director, Writer Two English Girls 89% 82% 1971 Director, Writer The Wild Child 100% 81% 1970 Le Dr Jean Itard Actor, Director Bed and Board 75% 84% 1970 Director, Writer Mississippi Mermaid 83% 73% 1969 Director, Writer, Screenwriter Stolen Kisses 97% 89% 1968 Director, Writer Me 100% 78% 1968 Producer The Bride Wore Black 85% 80% 1968 Director, Writer Fahrenheit 451 81% 72% 1966 Director, Screenwriter The Soft Skin 90% 86% 1964 Director, Screenwriter Jules and Jim 94% 89% 1962 Director, Writer, Writer Love at Twenty 76% 1962 Director Antoine and Colette 89% 1962 Director, Screenwriter A Story of Water 65% 1961 Director, Screenwriter
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