April 30 - 7:00pm
François Truffaut (1959) France 99 mins PG

Truffaut’s debut feature was a critical triumph at Cannes in 1959 & the 1st in a long collaboration between him & actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. Credited as one of the founding films of the French New Wave, it is a beautifully realised & emotionally wrenching tale about a young delinquent & his struggle against the oppressive regime of adults. Truffaut dedicates this film to the then recently deceased critic André Bazin, whose mentorship in cinema saved him from his own troubled adolescence.
Imported 35mm print.
April 30 - 8:50pm
François Truffaut (1971) 124 mins

Truffaut transforms Henri-Pierre Roché’s (Jules et Jim) tale of 2 English girls smitten by with a young Frenchman into one of the most physical of films about love. Utilising the restricted palette of early 2-tone Technicolor (supremely lensed by Nestor Almendros) Truffaut produces the most eloquent of frissons in which the sense of a world vanishing can be etched on a lover’s face. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham & Stacey Tendeter. Music by Georges Delerue. Restored full-length version.
Imported 35mm print.