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François Truffaut
François Truffaut was a French film director and screenwriter, known for his influential contributions to the French New Wave movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He directed numerous acclaimed films, including The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim, and was also a film critic and author. He died in 1984 at the age of 52.
Titles credited to François Truffaut
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Deux de la Vague
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival footage, interviews, and film excerpts — written and narrated by...
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