Truffaut

[ troo-foh; French try-foh ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [fran-, swah, f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1932–84, French film director.

Truffaut

/ tryfo /

noun

1. TruffautFrançois19321984MFrenchFILMS AND TV: director François (frɑ̃swa). 1932–84, French film director of the New Wave. His films include Les Quatre cents coups (1959), Jules et Jim (1961), Baisers volés (1968), and Le Dernier Métro (1980)

Example Sentences

François Truffaut’s “Day for Night” has always struck me as the ideal picture of that process — not without challenges, or quirky personalities, but with a clear sense of purpose.

From Los Angeles Times

As well as continuing to make budget movies, he also began handling films made by distinguished foreign film-makers, including Francois Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini and introducing them to an American audience.

From BBC

There’s this famous sentence from François Truffaut in France who said all the time, “I’m doing a movie against the previous one.”

From Los Angeles Times

François Truffaut once wrote that “war films, even pacifist, even the best, willingly or not, glorify war and render it in some way attractive.”

From New York Times

I decided to follow her example and changed my thesis topic: Goodbye "Language and Aphasia in the Cinematography of François Truffaut"; hello "Showbiz Politics: The American Model and the Forza Italia Model."

From Salon