Francois Truffaut: Interviews (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934110140)

The French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema's history, and among its contributors Fran輟is 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. He made films that reflected his three professed passions: a love of cinema, an interest in the difficulties of male-female relationships, and a fascination with the problems of children.

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 L饌ud) through Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series that begins with his first feature The 400 Blows (1959) and ends with Love on the Run (1978).

Truffaut, a perceptive film critic for Cahiers du Cin駑a before becoming a director, was able to be objective about his own and other people's films. Always concerned with the process as well as the product of his profession, Truffaut maintained his role as critic and commentator throughout his career and remained equally as good an interviewer as an interviewee.

Author: Ronald Bergan
ISBN-10: 1934110140
ISBN-13: 9781934110140
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.98w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2007 pg. 15