Francois Truffaut and the French New Wave

1. Francois Truffaut and the French New Wave

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3. François Truffaut • François Roland Truffaut was an influential film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Wikipedia • Born: February 6, 1932, Paris • Died: October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine • Awards: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film, César Award for Best Film, Louis Delluc Prize, César Award for Best Director, Cannes Best Director Award, César Award for Best Writing, BAFTA Award for Best Direction,National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, Nastrod'Argento Best Director for Foreign Film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award for Best French Film, David di Donatello Luchino Visconti Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture, Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film • Books: Hitchcock, Correspondence, 1945-1984, The early film criticism of François Truffaut, Jules Et Jim,Day for Night • Children: Eva Truffaut, Joséphine Truffaut, Laura Truffaut

4. Life of Francois Truffaut • Lived with his grandmother until she died when he was 10. He then lived with his mother and stepfather. • He had a difficult childhood. • He was interested in films from a young age and started his own film club. • He met Andre Bazin (was a world renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist) who became a personal friend and helped him get out of jail when Francois deserted the army. • Andre Bazin gave him a job at his magazine: Cahiers du Cinéma where Francois made a name for himself and was banned from the Cannes film festival. • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000076/?ref_=sr_1

5. 400 Blows: won best director at Cannes • The 400 Blows marked the beginning of the French New Wave movement, which gave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette a wider audience. The New Wave dealt with a self-conscious rejection of traditional cinema structure. This was a topic on which Truffaut had been writing for years. • The film is semi-autobiographical of Francois Truffaut’s childhood

6. The French New Wave • The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of the literary period pieces being made in France and written by novelists, their spirit of youthful iconoclasm, the desire to shoot more current social issues on location, and their intention of experimenting with the film form. "New Wave" is an example of European art cinema.

7. Jean Luc Godard • Another French New Wave director. • MasculinFeminin(1966) • http://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=jmJ5VRdBVTU • As you watch, note what is realistic or otherwise characteristic of the film movement.