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It was there that he became an exponent of the auteur theory, which said the director is the true author of the film. [4] The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave.
Jules and Jim (French: Jules et Jim [ʒyl e dʒim]) is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film directed, produced and co-written by François Truffaut.Set before, during, and after World War I, it follows a tragic love triangle involving French bohemian Jim (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jules' girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).
French New Wave is influenced by Italian Neorealism [2] and classical Hollywood cinema. [2] In a 1961 interview, Truffaut said that "the 'New Wave' is neither a movement, nor a school, nor a group, it's a quality" and in December 1962 published a list of 162 film directors who had made their feature film debut since 1959. Many of these ...
The 400 Blows (French: Les quatre cents coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, [3] and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote the film.Shot in the anamorphic format DyaliScope, the film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier.
Jean-Luc Godard was born on 3 December 1930 [16] in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, [17] the son of Odile (née Monod) and Paul Godard, a Swiss physician. [18] His wealthy parents came from Protestant families of Franco–Swiss descent, and his mother was the daughter of Julien Monod, a founder of the Banque Paribas.
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Fellow New Wave director Jacques Rivette appears in a cameo as the dead body of a man hit by a car in the street. [12]: 74 The film includes many in-jokes like the young woman selling Cahiers du Cinéma and Michel's occasional alias of Laszlo Kovacs, the name of Belmondo's character in Chabrol's 1959 film Web of Passion.
Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life.