Francois Truffaut

by Bergan, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9781934110140
• ISBN10: 1934110140
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

The French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema's history, and among the movement's contributors Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) was a key figure. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and others, Truffaut helped to form the New Wave's aesthetics and vision and was the first to conceptualize the auteur theory. As this collection of interviews progresses, we follow Truffaut's creative evolution almost as much as we follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel (actor Jean-Pierre Leaud) through Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series that begins with his first feature The 400 Blows (1959) and ends with Love on the Run (1978).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xxiii
Filmography	p. xxvii
Crest of the New Wave	p. 3
"It's the Universe of Simenon"	p. 6
Francois Truffaut: Film-Struck Truant	p. 8
A Problem of Calculating the Dose between the Everyday and the Extraordinary	p. 13
Truffaut's Bride Wore Black	p. 16
The Cinema according to Truffaut	p. 20
The Bride Wore Black Is a Film of Pure Sentiment	p. 24
The 400 Blows of Francois Truffaut	p. 28
Life Style of Homo Cinematicus	p. 33
The Story of the Degradation of Love by Passion	p. 48
Truffaut's Tenderness Tames His Wolf Boy	p. 52
Francois Truffaut	p. 55
A Wild Boy Civilized	p. 75
If One Doesn't Like to Hear Talk of Love	p. 78
Intensification	p. 82
Truffaut in London	p. 90
Adele H	p. 96
Isabelle A Plays Adele H	p. 99
Kid Stuff	p. 102
Francois T	p. 114
Truffaut: Twenty Years After	p. 128
How Truffaut's The Last Metro Reflects Occupied Paris	p. 142
Index	p. 147
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