Truffaut soon gained a reputation for unforgiving and brutal reviews, earning him the nickname "Le Fossoyeur" ( The Gravedigger). The influential film critic André Bazin became a mentor to Truffaut and offered him a job as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma (est. It was here that he became familiar with American cinema and directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, as well as those of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films.Īs a teenage, Truffaut regularly visited the Cinémathèque Française where he was exposed to countless foreign films from around the world. Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Franceįrançois Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave ( La Nouvelle Vague).
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