Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (UK: TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: troo-FOH; French:; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for the latter's Cahiers du Cinéma, where Truffaut became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. […]

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