François Truffaut was an influential filmmaker, critically acclaimed worldwide. His work for Cahiers du Cinema and his role as a founder of the French New Wave and the auteur theory cement his status as an icon of French cinema. Truffaut's films are celebrated for their distinctive vision and artistic approach.
Cinéroman tiré du film éponyme sorti en 1977. Malgré les conseils raisonnés de son médecin, Bertrand Morane fait de sa vie une quête éperdue du plaisir. Insatiable amoureux des femmes, son unique terreur est d'arriver au terme de sa vie sans avoir pu les goûter toutes
Small Change , shot in the French Provinces, is a story about children. Truffaut has captured the essence of each age group – the verbally precocious three-year-old who pushes the family cat out the window only to follow it nine stories to the ground, the teenage boy yet to experience his first kiss, but hopelessly infatuated with his best friend's mother, the uncooperative eight-year-old daughter of the local policeman who, when left alone as punishment, uses her father's bullhorn to complain to the neighbors she is starving, the brothers who, having insufficient pocket money to buy a stolen compass, cut a younger classmate's hair and borrow his barber money.Small Change contains precise and moving descriptions of the various stages of a secure childhood, of the fun and freedom one experiences as a child, but throughout the film, Truffaut makes a stunning comparison with another child who lives in the same town, who attends the same school. He compares the life of Julian, who is hated and abused by his mother, whose mere existence is despised because he is a child. In Small Change , Truffaut makes an eloquent and traumatic appeal for the rights of children.
Probably the best loved of all Truffaut's films, Jules et Jim was an instant success with both the critics and the public when it opened in Paris in 1962. Telling of the friendship between Jules and Jim, and the love affairs they both have with Catherine, the story is set in Paris.
The French director discusses each of his films from The 400 Blows to The Last Metro, and recounts his childhood, first memories of the cinema, and major influences
