François Truffaut

François Truffaut’s late-career drama features mesmerising performances from two icons of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, in a powerful character study set in German-occupied Paris. The Last Metro explores the fortunes of the Montmartre Theatre as its owner (Deneuve) battles censorship and compromise while hiding her Jewish husband from Nazi persecution. When a […]

This affectionate farce from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of moviemaking is one of his most beloved films. Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama…..

Starting just before the Great War and spanning three decades, François Truffaut’s hugely popular classic depicts one of cinema’s most captivating love triangles, between two best friends – the Austrian Jules (Oskar Werner) and the French Jim (Henri Serre) – and the object of their mutual desire , the enigmatic and alluring Catherine, played with […]

François Truffaut’s directorial debut introduces his enduring alter ego , Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) – a misunderstood 12-year-old, neglected by his parents and mistreated by repressive schoolteachers, who seeks refuge in truancy, petty crime and , above all, cinema. Truffaut’s most autobiographical film is widely regarded as one of the all-time great coming-of-age movies. A […]