The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: Autobiographical Screenplays

by François Truffaut

Book by Francois truffaut

Genres: Film

320 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1973

About the author

François Roland Truffaut was an award-winning and influential filmmaker, critically acclaimed worldwide. He was also a talented and sought-after film critic in France (most notably, his work for Cahiers du Cinema), and one of the founders of the French New Wave and the auteur theory; he remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he was also a screenwriter, producer or occasional actor in over twenty-five films.

Reviews

[SARP]

Kız arkadaşımın hediyesiydi bir solukta okumuştum. Truffaut'un yalın sineması beni hep büyülemiştir. Godard'dan çok daha üstün bulmuşumdur kendisini.

[Dan Lalande]

The outlines, treatments, screenplays and notes that served as the dramatic wireframe of Francois Truffaut's first 4 Antoine Doinel films (the last, Love on the Run, came after publication.) Doinel, Truffaut's alter ego, quickly converts from tragic hero to gentle bourgeois comedian, though he remains a lost soul, victim of a thwarted romantic instinct instilled by his attractive, self-obssessed mother. Remarkably, though we are given the films but as blueprints, our sympathy and amusement is readily invested.