PORTRAIT – On October 21, 1984, the filmmaker died at the age of 52. Forty years later, his films are still successful and his aura has never weakened. Of the New Wave, he is the most loved.
There is a mystery. Truffaut is not leaving us. Forty years later, he is more alive than ever. All of his films are available on DVD. Televisions program them with great regularity. Not a year goes by without a publisher publishing a new biography of him, a collection of articles, an album to his glory. In a sense, he beats his New Wave competitors hands down. Antoine Doinel doesn’t have a wrinkle. With Les Quatre Cents Coups, François Truffaut immediately touched the public. He made his double of Jean-Pierre Léaud, a sort of son on film. The example has no equal on screen.
Truffaut behaved like a novelist with his character, watching him grow old, marry, become a father, divorce. The charm worked. A kid neglected by his parents skipped classes, stole a typewriter, ended up in a reformatory. Doinel occupied the dreams of a France in black and white. Teenagers would fall forever…
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