Paris, the 6 February 1932 He was born François Truffaut. Was a great Director, screenwriter, film producer, French actor and film critic. Marked with directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette film known as the cultural current Nouvelle Vague. That movement was characterized by a’ inspiration from Italian neorealism conjugated to an undermining of the rules of shooting and editing of classic cinema. He had a’ troubled childhood, never knew her biological father and that caused him to have a controversial and uncompromising. Thunderstruck by the cinema, passed throughout adolescence watching movies. The French critic Andre Bazin saved him from several legal woes that he had hunted for the fault of his rebellious spirit by putting it in a circle of film criticism. The young François began to write for film journals and then, Thanks to Bazin, He switched to a magazine founded in those years the Cahiers du cinéma. With the knowledge that he had managed to make the Office Assistant Roberto Rossellini. He met Jean-Luc Godard with whom he wrote the movie Until the last breath, film icon of the Nouvelle Vague. He became interested in a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, Jules et Jim. This title launched the great French actress Jeanne Monreau. It was the story of a love triangle between two friends and a girl, mixed with the taste for literature and languages. This film remains iconic still through the course on the ponte dei tre. The recurring theme of Truffaut's adolescence made of restlessness, unhappiness and loneliness. Lowered into a path of inner knowing characterized by the discovery of love. The success came with the film The 400 Shots, in 1959. The story of teenager Antoine Doinel that will star even in his later films Love at twenty (1962), Stolen kisses (1968), Don't think it is the… It's just a matter of horns (1970) and Love on the run (1979). His films include portraits of adolescents and women among the most poetic, pedagogical and sociological that cinema had known before. In Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 We find all the love for literature. In 1973 movie night effect brings with it all the love that Truffaut had for the cinema. The story sees the succession of constructing a movie, his difficulties of realization and loves that saw the birth on set. In 1977 He did not miss the experience of actor for Steven Spielberg in the movie Close encounters of the third kind where he played a French scientist. In the same year released The man who anklein women, the story of a man and his sentimental stories, obviously supported by personal experiences of Director. He was an indomitable seducer, He had many women, including his wife Madeleine Morgenstern who bore him three daughters. He died from a serious brain illness in Paris on 21 October 1984. His cinema got stroked two decades, where we also left a key work for movie lovers, the book Cinema according to Hitchcock, the best film book ever written about the long conversations between the two filmmakers on the career of the Director of the thrill.
Hector Parker
