He had an ambitious vision of the seventh art: "A film, to be successful, must simultaneously express an idea of the world and an idea of cinema." The gesture of François Truffaut, venomous critic in his young years, then prince of the New Wave and filmmaker inspired by The American Night and the Last Metro , becomes one of the spearheads of the American platform Netflix.
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Friday, April 24, the streaming giant will therefore kick off a new policy which is now more open to the dissemination of works by cinema masters. In partnership with the distributor MK2, which has a rich catalog of classic works, Netflix chose the anthology films of François Truffaut to inaugurate this program which should delight the most demanding moviegoers.
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In the twelve films made available on the platform, lovers of Truffaut's gesture will be able to see and certainly review almost all of his most important feature films. Les Quatre Cents Coups , of course, which romanticizes his childhood and adolescence in Paris in the 1950s. But also, the iconoclast Jules and Jim inspired as he liked to repeat "the most beautiful novel " he has known.
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François Truffaut, filmmaker who loved women, defined cinema as follows: "Make pretty women do pretty things." The anthology of Netflix shows how much he knew throughout his career to follow this beautiful idea. Platform subscribers will thus be able to review the indefinable charm of Françoise Dorléac ( La Peau douce ), the icy beauty of Catherine Deneuve ( The Last Metro ), the hieratic seduction of Fanny Ardant ( The woman next door ), the moving innocence of Claude Jade ( Stolen Kisses ) and the disturbing face of Julie Christie ( Fahrenheit 451 ).
The music and songs of François Truffaut's films also play a large part in his genius as a filmmaker. In Tirez sur le Pianiste , the singer was camped by Boby Lapointe and the bar pianist by Charles Aznavour. In Jules and Jim, The Whirlwind of Life was hummed by Jeanne Moreau. Lyrics and films, soon to be broadcast on Netflix to the delight of cinema lovers. " We got to know each other, we recognized each other, we lost touch with each other, we lost sight of each other ... "
The whirlwind of life sung by Jeanne Moreau, the song from the film Jules et Jim by François Truffaut: