Main exponent of the ‘Nouvelle vague’ next to Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut enters the field of the greatest filmmakers in the history of French cinema. Truffaut, who has a very extensive filmography (even though he died at age 52), was noted for his always dynamic films, exploring, in a light and comical way, the nuances of the human being and his erratic behaviors in the world. This Top 10 brings ten essential films to understand the Truffaut film synthesis, also serving as a gateway for people who do not yet know this great name of the seventh art.
10º – The Woman Next Door (François Truffaut, 1981)
A man is enveloped in a tangle of incongruities when a woman with whom he had an intense relationship in the past moves into the house next door. Delivering a more traditional atmosphere, without daring much at any time, François Truffaut succeeds in achieving his proposal, presenting us a film about the inexorability that some factors of our past have in the way of being of the human being.
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9º – A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (François Truffaut, 1972)
Telling the story of a young woman with a completely erratic behavior towards her social environment, ‘A Gorgeous Girl Like Me’ presents a more primitive vision of being human, exposing this as an inconsequential and immeasurable sphere of the world. Here we will see Truffaut govern his more traditional elements, dealing with temporal lapses, the sight of characters without a voice in the plot and the possibility of squandering erratic beings from the social apparatus.
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