Ahead of their nationwide theatrical releases of Silken Skin and Day For Night, the British Film Institute, London have an illustrated lecture on the films’ director François Truffaut, which will take place on 1st February 2011.
Entitled The Truffaut Paradox, Ginette Vincendeau will explore the filmmaker’s many paradoxical aspects: a moving force behind the iconoclastic politique des auteurs, Truffaut nevertheless became a popular mainstream director. His cinematic influences ranged from Jean Renoir’s ‘casual’ realism to Hitchcock’s highly constructed plots. Last but not least, the ‘man who loved women’ produced some of the most luminous but also some of the darkest portrayals of women.
In addition, François Truffaut in Focus is a short course on the director which the institute will be running from 8th February until 1st March 2011. Expert scholars from Film Studies at King’s College London will lead thought-provoking and accessible seminars, richly illustrated with extracts and focusing on his oeuvre from a range of critical perspectives. Sessions will include discussion of his cinephilic writing of the 1950s, the films of the New Wave period, the figure of Antoine Doinel, and the treatment of sexual difference during the New Wave and beyond.
For more information, including course dates and costs, head to the BFI’s website here.
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