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Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s endearing1980 film is a fine tribute to the French theatre and the spirit of bravery and resistance. You can smell the greasepaint backstage and feel the mood of the wartime Nazi Occupation […]
Writer-director François Truffaut’s 1981 romantic drama is his 20th and penultimate film, which reteams him with Gérard Depardieu from his previous movie, The Last Metro (1980). Depardieu stars as a marine engineer called Bernard Coudray, […]
François Truffaut’s 21st and last feature film before his tragically early death at 52 from a brain tumour on 21 October 1984 is a surprisingly bright and jolly comedy thriller – a movie toast to […]
Ah, yes, love leads to an uncertain future when you lie, cheat, rob and murder. François Truffaut turns a Cornell Woolrich novel into the moody and engaging 1969 film noir Mississippi Mermaid with the right […]
Five directors from around the world present their different perspectives on what love is like at the age of 20 in a 1962 omnibus anthology of separate episodes united by their theme, the score of Georges […]
François Truffaut’s charming and revealing 1957 nostalgic short is his first professional film. Financed by his film distributor wife Madeleine Morgenstern and filmed on location in Nimes with five local boys as the Mistons (Mischief-Makers), […]
Director François Truffaut’s 1976 hymn to the joys of youth is a series of charming anecdotes about a group of provincial French schoolboys, their teachers and parents in the town of Thiers in the summer of […]