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
Jules arrives from Austria in belle poque Paris, where he is befriended by Jim. Together they embark upon a riotously Bohemian life, full of gaiety, color and bustle. And then there is Kate, the enigmatic German girl with the mysterious smile. Capricious, untamed and curiously innocent, Kate steals their hearts in turn, and so begins the moving and tender story of three people in love, with each other and with life. Francois Truffaut, whose film of the novel is one of cinema's greatest achievments, has called Jules et Jim "a perfect hymn to love." Henri-Pierre Roch devoted his life to the arts, numbering Duchamp, Brancusi, Braque, Satie and Picasso amongst his closest friends. Jules et Jim, an autobiographical novel, was originally published in France in 1953 and was followed by Deux Anglaises et le Continent, which Truffaut also made into a film. "A delightful account of people sharing and unsharing each other."?Times Literary Supplement
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
