Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)

Les Quatre Cents Coups by François Truffaut (1959)

Andre Bazin, the great cinema theorist, begins his cinema studies by establishing a cinema club in the House of Letters he founded in Paris. Thanks to those who come to the club, new friendships, emerging publications and the effects of those publications, a small movement evolves into the magazine: Les Cahiers du Cinema.

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Baisers Volés (1968)

Baisers Volés by François Truffaut (1968)

The story of Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) in Baisers volés (1968) that he did not belong to the world of adults was actually the remains of Truffaut’s own life. The attitude of the director, who grew up with his stepfather figure in an environment where he could not adapt, by seeing his grandmother rather than his mother, was in parallel with Doinel, who was tangent to 68 uprisings

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Tirez Sur le Pianiste (1960)

Tirez Sur le Pianiste by François Truffaut (1960)

The concept of “auteur”, which the New Wave presents to cinema, has the idea that the writer and director of the movie is the same person, and that the name of the movie creator is again the director. Accepting Alexandre Astruc’s assertion that the director can use the camera like a pencil, he thinks to bring this idea to life. Truffaut Tirez reinterprets the novel he inspired in “Sur le Pianiste”.

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