Encounter 4 - The protagonists: François Truffaut

He is the poet of the Nouvelle vague, the ‘son’ of Bazin, who grew up with the myth of cinema and literature. In his films, themes such as the mystery and instability of human relationships, the contrast between the purity of the dream and the harshness of reality, the regret for a lost purity emerge. His style strives to make the act of storytelling more important than the narrative itself: with Les quatrecentre coups (1959) the idea of cinematic autobiography as an aesthetic project was born, just as in Jules et Jim (1963) the contrasting story of an amour fou a tre becomes an opportunity to explore the subjectivity of the camera.