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

Some of these critics, notably Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer, later became filmmakers of international repute.

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He says he likes Truffaut's work, but is hard pressed to think of a title.

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There must be in his life, as Truffaut remarked about Hitchcock's films, “inner fire and cool surfaces.”

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“Right at the beginning, Truffaut and Delerue set the tone,” Desplat continues.

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How about sitting around with [French director Francois] Truffaut for eight months and really getting to know him?

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There are nearly thirty shades in Truffaut's Peony-flowered Asters.

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