François Truffaut

Keith Reader writes that the critics around Cahiers du cinéma attacked Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost as the emblem of a constipated, reactionary cinema, and he singles out François Truffaut within that attack. For Reader, Bertrand Tavernier's championing of the pair was a provocative gesture that earned his later work a cool reception at Cahiers. Two Césars stand to Truffaut's name and The Last Metro brought them both: the directing one, and the category covering screenplay, dialogue or adaptation. The two arrived at the same ceremony from the same film, the directing award to him alone and the writing one shared with Suzanne Schiffman.