FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
(1932-1984)
Before becoming one of the leader of the ‘new wave’, he used to go in film clubs and in the French film library, he met the great filmmakers and used (at the Cahiers du Cinéma, thanks to his spiritual father André Bazin) his critical wit against the French ‘tradition of quality’ cinema to which he opposed the cult of the authors (J. Renoir, A. Hitchcock, O. Welles…).
Fighting against academism, recommending sincerity and naivety in creation, he chose the first person cinema from which his first feature length film, The 400 blows, is the dazzling manifesto: it is almost an autobiography, telling the first steps in life of a ‘terrible child’ who was his alter ego.
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LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS
François Truffaut • France • feature • 1959 • 1h33 • black and white • 35 mm
with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffray...
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Antoine is a boisterous teenager. He lies to his parents who are not at all interested in his fate; he steals and runs away. His only comfort is that he does every kind of stupidities with his friend René. One day, the police come into it…
Cinematic analysis by Isidro Gomez, university lecturer : Wednesday 13th at 6pm
Distribution : MK2 diffusion
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