Truffaut

1. A clandestine childhood: 1932-1946 The secret child = 3 My grandfather, a prim disciplinarian = 4 My mother = 10 Truancy and lies = 12 Lachenay, the friendfriendfriend = 15 I Sévigne, you Sévigne = 17 The story of a cheat = 19 Summer camps = 23 War is a theater = 26 2. Four hundred blows: 1946-1952 Small jobs = 30 The magic booklets = 32 Renoir, Welles, and Bresson = 35 Adventures in film mania = 36 Collared = 39 Juvenile delinquent = 41 I don't gaze at the sky for long = 44 Upsetting the applecart = 46 Love at the Cinémathèque = 51 The Club du Faubourg = 53 Society reporter = 54 Twenty-five razor slashes = 56 Enlistment = 58 The diary of a thief = 60 The deserter = 63 Me, François Truffaut, a self-hating autodidact = 66 3. Life was the screen: 1952-1958 At the Bazins' = 70 The time of contempt = 72 The young Turks = 77 Press campaigns = 80 A Hussar with his sword drawn = 84 First footage = 88 Truffette and Rivaut = 89 I admire you = 90 Ophuls = 92 Rossellini = 94 The auteur theory = 97 Venice 56 = 102 Henri-Pierre Boché = 103 Making a film = 105 Bernadette's skirt = 107 The film of tomorrow will be an act of love = 109 If Guitry were told to me = 112 Vadim right on time = 113 The mischief makers = 114 Madeleine = 117 Putting an end to criticism = 120 4. New Wave: 1958-1962 Days of heat = 124 Antoine's truancy = 126 The festival of child prodigies = 133 An easy target = 136 Family wound = 138 A new life = 143 Parallel families = 145 Foreign correspondents = 149 Paris belongs to us =150 Friends first = 152 The story of a shy person = 154 Goodis Queneau-style = 156 The American friend = 159 The Algerian tragedy = 162 The manifesto of the 121 = 165 They shoot at the piano player = 167 The greatest sweetheart = 169 Wavering wave = 170 The whirlwind of life = 174 This pure triangular love = 177 The women cry = 180 A musical infatuation = 184 The trial of the new wave = 187 5. The slow years: 1962-1968 Science fiction = 190 Hitchcock = 194 Trip to Tokyo = 199 The soft skin = 201 The thick skin = 205 The separation = 207 Bonnie and Clyde = 210 Degrees Fahrenheit = 212 The forest of book-men = 217 The hitchbook = 221 Deathly pale thriller = 223 The colors of the bride = 227 Framboise = 229 6. Parallel lives: 1968-1971 Detective Doinel = 231 Scandal at the Cinémathèque = 235 Vive Langlois! = 239 Curtains in Cannes = 241 The family saga = 246 What is left of our loves? = 249 Belle de Nuit = 251 The Mississippi crew = 255 The wild child = 260 The carrosse keeps rolling = 265 Scenes from a marriage = 268 The cause of children = 270 The new Renoir = 272 Sartre's cause = 274 Breakups are necessary = 279 7. Cinema man: 1971-1979 Two English girls = 282 The female hoodlum = 289 Day for night = Like a train going along in the night = 294 The confrontation = 299 Private lives = 303 The California summer = 307 Political columns = 314 Isabelle's face = 317 Small change = 322 A man who would have the soul of a child = 324 A solitary hunter = 329 Living with one's dead = 336 The empty room = 341 Love on the run = 344 8. The unfinished figure: 1979-1984 Theater during the Nazi occupation = 350 Another double = 353 The best novel of the year = 355 Ten Césars = 359 Sauve qui peut (l'amitié) ... or Salvaging a friendship = 362 Neither with you nor without you = 364 A singular couple = 369 On the sidelines = 370 Confidentially yours! = 373 Fanny in black and white = 375 The last vacation = 378 Observing silence = 384 Life regardless = 387 The diminished life = 389 The farewell ceremony = 391 Notes = 395 Bibliography = 429 Acknowledgements = 435 Index = 437

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