Francois Truffaut the famous French film director was the man behind the movie “the last metro”, which was released in 1980. He was also a famous critic as well. Francois was born in 6th February of 1932. As a film critic he advocated the Auteur theory as well as helped to establish the new wave movement.

Francois first movie was “the 400 blows” which was released in 1959. It was a semi-autobiographical film, a portrait of a criminal boy. The film was internationally acclaimed. Francois Truffaut was highly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir. His films were about life’s grayness and uniformity with a sense of acceptance quite different from platitude or petulant nihilism.

His some famous movies were “shoot the piano player” of 1960, “Jules and Jim” of 1961, “Fahrenheit 451” of 1966, “stolen kisses” of 1968, “the wild child” of 1969 and “the story of Adele H.” of 1975.

Francois’s academy winner movie was “day for night”, released in 1973. He was died in 21st October of 1984 in Neuilly-sur-seine, near France.