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Francois Truffaut, by Anne Gillian - review

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

François Truffaut: The Lost Secret Anne Gillain

Indiana University Press, pp.336, £21.99

A Companion to François Truffaut Dudley Andrew and Anne Gillain (eds)

Wiley Blackwell, pp.640, £120

François Truffaut: The Complete Films Robert Ingram and Paul Duncan

Taschen, pp.192, £8.99

Almost 30 years after his death, François Truffaut remains a vital presence in the cinema. Terrence Malick and Wes Anderson are among maverick directors who have acknowledged their debt to him, while Noah Baumbach’s recent Frances Ha is in part an hommage à Truffaut in a way the French director would have appreciated: for example, the quick succession of scenes establishing the friendship of Frances and Sophie is borrowed from Jules et Jim (1962), Jean Constantin’s music from Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) appears on the soundtrack, and a poster for L’Argent de poche (1976) is glimpsed on a wall...

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