François Truffaut: For the Love of Films

After years working as a film critic at publications like Cahiers du Cinéma, along with peers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, Truffaut became one of the most significant directors of the French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s. This seminal movement, which revolutionised filmmaking with its preference both for a playful approach to narrative and for shooting on location, would go on to influence the ambitions and practice of many filmmakers of the 60s, 70s and beyond, while countless filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg and Bong Joon-ho to Greta Gerwig and Wes Anderson, continue to hold Truffaut’s work in high esteem.

We are presenting the season with Institute Français as a cultural partner. Institute Français will be screening a selection of films, including the Doinel cycle.