Highly influential French director and film scholar (1932–1984) who was one of the leading lights of the French “New Wave” of the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best-known films are The 400 Blows (1959), Jules and Jim (1962), and Day for Night (1973). Art-house-phobic American audiences likely remember him best as the sympathetic scientist Lacombe in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Glossy 8 x 10 photo, inscribed in blue felt tip to Diane with a sentiment in French and signed “François Truffaut.” In very fine condition. R&R COA.
