François Truffaut
François Truffaut and a brief summary of Le Dernier Métro and La Nouvelle Vague
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- François Truffaut
- Early Life
- Born out of wedlock: 6th February 1932
- Never met his real father
- He was brought up by his mother, Janine (who resented him)
- He was also brought up by Janine's husband, Truffaut's adoptive father, Roland Truffaut
- In a difficult and rebellious childhood, he sought escape in reading avidly and frequent trips to the cinema
- He lived with his Grandmother until her death when Truffaut was 10
- He was 8 when he saw his 1st film: "Paradis Perdu" by Abel Gance and his obsession began then.
- He was expelled from several school (often for missing school to go to the cinema)
- At 14 he decided to be self-taught and his aim was to watch 3 movies a day and read 3 books a week
- at 16 he founded a cinema club
- resulted in debt, trouble with the police, and alienation from his parents.
- He met André Bazin who was a critic and the head of another film society at the time
- Born out of wedlock: 6th February 1932
- Career
- 1480 (aged 18) Truffaut joined the French army
- he spent the next two years trying to escape
- he was arrested for deserting and spent some time in a military prison in Germany
- Bazin got Truffaut released and set him up with a job
- he was arrested for deserting and spent some time in a military prison in Germany
- he spent the next two years trying to escape
- he ban his career as a successful, if controversial,film critic for "Les Cahiers de cinéma"
- Bazin got Truffaut released and set him up with a job
- He condemned the old guard of French cinema and proposed a new vision, which he would later go on to produce with his friends Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and others in "La Nouvelle Vague
- after being a critic, he decided to make films of his own
- 1955 he started with the short film "Une Visite" and followed it up in 1957 with "Les Mistons"
- His first feature film was "Les Quatre Cent Coups" in 1959 which was an instant success.
- His best film "Jules et Jim" was released in 1961"
- in the mid 60s Truffaut's career slowed with the badly accepted "Fahrenheit 451" but it picked up with a string of successful films
- "Baisers Volés"(68), "La sirène du Mississippi"(69), "L'enfant sauvage"(70), "Domicile Conjugal"(70), "
- His later films of the 80s were generally less successful
- But "Le Dernier Métro" (1980) was a huge success, it won 10 Césars and best foreign film at the Boston Society of Film Critics, and was nominated for an Oscar
- Le Dernier Métro
- Tale of the theatre Montmartre in Paris under the Occupation
- Lucas Steiner, the director is a jew and so cannot direct anymore, he is supposed to have fled to South America but is actually hidden in the basement of the theatre
- Marion Steiner has to run the theatre and get ready for their new play "La Disparue"
- The attraction between Marion and one of the actors (Bernard) who is a member of the resistance, creates tension
- Marion Steiner has to run the theatre and get ready for their new play "La Disparue"
- Lucas Steiner, the director is a jew and so cannot direct anymore, he is supposed to have fled to South America but is actually hidden in the basement of the theatre
- A well spun romance
- Tale of the theatre Montmartre in Paris under the Occupation
- Le Dernier Métro
- But "Le Dernier Métro" (1980) was a huge success, it won 10 Césars and best foreign film at the Boston Society of Film Critics, and was nominated for an Oscar
- 1480 (aged 18) Truffaut joined the French army
- Le Dernier Métro
- Tale of the theatre Montmartre in Paris under the Occupation
- Lucas Steiner, the director is a jew and so cannot direct anymore, he is supposed to have fled to South America but is actually hidden in the basement of the theatre
- Marion Steiner has to run the theatre and get ready for their new play "La Disparue"
- The attraction between Marion and one of the actors (Bernard) who is a member of the resistance, creates tension
- Marion Steiner has to run the theatre and get ready for their new play "La Disparue"
- Lucas Steiner, the director is a jew and so cannot direct anymore, he is supposed to have fled to South America but is actually hidden in the basement of the theatre
- A well spun romance
- Tale of the theatre Montmartre in Paris under the Occupation
- La Nouvelle Vague
- An informal movement by a group of film lovers who aimed to apply new avant garde stylistic direction.
- The low-budget approach helped filmmakers get at the essential art form & find what was a much more comfortable and contemporary form of production
- Members
- Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jaques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, etc.
- Early Life
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