Truffaut: A Biography

"Where TRUFFAUT is more successful is in providing a nuanced portrait of the director, a portrait that draws heavily upon Truffaut's own correspondence, particularly his revealing letters to his friend and translator Helen Scott. The man who emerges from this book is a melancholy man, awkward yet seductive, generous but judgmental, a man who seemed incapable of being faithful to a single woman but who simultaneously depended upon the bourgeois stability of his marriage, a man who once wrote that his 'critical attitude' prevented him 'from falling in love.'"Serge Toubiana is the author of 'Truffaut: A Biography', published 2000 under ISBN 9780520225244 and ISBN 0520225244.