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

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

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

Though he is known for movies made quickly and cheaply for drive-ins and double-bills, Corman also distributed major international art-house films by the likes of Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut and Federico Fellini.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

But only two pages later, she details her discovery of Francois Truffaut and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma as she studies abroad in Paris.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

François Truffaut is one of them: Jean-Pierre Léaud’s roguish mien became, through Truffaut’s films, synonymous with the spirit of the French New Wave.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022