Q 01/05

Truffaut is regarded as one of the founders of which film movement?

A) Dogme 95

B) Italian Neorealism

C) The French New Wave

D) German Expressionism

Answer · why

C) The French New Wave

Historian Tony Judt called him 'not only the main theorist behind the revolution in French cinema' but 'by far its most consistently successful practi...

Q 02/05

What was Truffaut's 1959 directorial debut?

A) Breathless

B) The 400 Blows

C) Jules and Jim

D) Shoot the Piano Player

Answer · why

B) The 400 Blows

He made it after seeing Orson Welles's Touch of Evil at Expo 58, and it drew 4.1 million admissions in France.

Q 03/05

Which actor played Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel in five films over twenty years?

A) Jean-Pierre Léaud

B) Jean-Paul Belmondo

C) Gérard Depardieu

D) Charles Denner

Answer · why

A) Jean-Pierre Léaud

He was 14 when he answered a flyer for the audition, and the two were sometimes mistaken for each other in the street.

Q 04/05

For which magazine did Truffaut write his notoriously brutal reviews as a young critic?

A) Sight and Sound

B) Les Temps modernes

C) Cahiers du Cinéma

D) Paris Match

Answer · why

C) Cahiers du Cinéma

He was nicknamed 'The Gravedigger of French Cinema' and was the only French critic not invited to Cannes in 1958.

Q 05/05

Which critic became Truffaut's mentor, got him out of military prison and found him a job at his new magazine?

A) Éric Rohmer

B) Henri Langlois

C) Jean-Luc Godard

D) André Bazin

Answer · why

D) André Bazin

Truffaut had joined the army at 18 and spent two years trying to escape it, ending up jailed for attempted desertion.