Truffaut

American  

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

noun

1. François 1932–84, French film director.

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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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Example Sentences

There are light, fond echoes of François Truffaut’s frolicking ode to cinematic fakery “Day for Night” and Ingmar Bergman’s bumpy ride on memory road “Wild Strawberries.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Prior to the appearance of “Hitchcock/Truffaut” in 1966, there was no literary genre for celebrating, analyzing or documenting the work of a filmmaker or the making of a film.

From The Wall Street Journal

Living up to his reputation as Cahiers’ brainiac bad boy, he pockets the office’s petty cash to road-trip to the Cannes premiere of Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows.”

From Los Angeles Times

During a chance encounter chauffeuring François Truffaut around, the master auteur told the desperate factotum that he had an eye for directing.

From Los Angeles Times

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