Francois Truffaut is an emblematic French film director born in Paris on the 6th of February, 1932. He began as a film critic and was one of the most famous members of the French “Nouvelle Vague”. His first film, Les Quatre Cents Coups (The Four Hundred Blows) was a success and a powerful manifest of this new film aesthetics. Getting away from pure academicism, he looked for sincerity in creation. He did not hesitate to shoot scenes directly inspired from his life and obsessions. Thanks to both original scripts (especially the Antoine Doinel series) and books adaptations (Jules and Jim, Two English Girls), he became quickly a successful and well-known director. He won more than thirty prestigious awards all along his career, including Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival (The Four Hundred Blows). He died on the 21st of October, 1984 but still has a great influence on French and international cinema.