Francois Truffaut

Francois Truffaut

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French filmmaker (1932–1984)

About Francois Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Truffaut came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.

Notable works:

Hitchcock

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