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Truffaut

American  
[troo-foh, try-foh] / truˈfoʊ, trüˈfoʊ /

noun

  1. François 1932–84, French film director.


Truffaut British  
/ tryfo /

noun

  1. 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)

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Like Julien Duvivier and François Truffaut before him, Kiarostami captures their innocence and guile with righteous force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Perhaps the French gatekeepers had in mind their own storied history of obsessives-turned-filmmakers like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and took a shine to the deeply ingrained movie-ness of it all.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

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 • May 12, 2024

Ms. Dillon received one of eight Oscar nominations for “Close Encounters,” whose cast included French director François Truffaut as a UFO expert.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2023

The Malaysian Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, a devotee of Truffaut, is another.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

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