Highly influential French director and film scholar 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 4.75 x 3.5 photo of Truffaut directing a scene, signed and inscribed in blue felt tip in French. A few tiny surface marks, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
