Q 01/05

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

A) Cinéma du look

B) French Poetic Realism

C) The French New Wave

D) French Impressionist cinema

Answer · why

C) The French New Wave

The French New Wave was a revolt by young critics turned directors, who left the studios to shoot cheap, loosely scripted films on real streets with h...

Q 02/05

The French title of Truffaut's debut The 400 Blows comes from an idiom meaning what?

A) To work like a dog

B) To strike it rich

C) To cry wolf

D) To raise hell

Answer · why

D) To raise hell

To raise hell: 'faire les quatre cents coups' means running wild, as the film's truant schoolboy does. The literal English title keeps the number and ...

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

Jean-Pierre Léaud won the part as a schoolboy by answering a newspaper ad. Truffaut later said Antoine had become a mixture of two real people: himsel...

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) Positif

Answer · why

C) Cahiers du Cinéma

Cahiers du Cinéma doubled as a film school: Truffaut and several fellow critics there put down their pens and became the directors who remade French f...

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

André Bazin and his wife all but adopted the young Truffaut. Bazin died just as shooting began on The 400 Blows, and Truffaut dedicated the film to hi...