French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. In 1953 Truffaut published his first movie critiques in “Les Cahiers du Cinema.” In this magazine Truffaut, and some of his friends as passionate as he was, became defenders of what they call the “author policy”. In 1954, as a test, Truffaut directed his first short film. Two years afterwards he assisted Roberto Rossellini with some later abandoned projects. The year 1957, He founded his own production company. In 1959, the huge success of his first full-length film, The 400 Blows (1959), was the beginning of the New Wave. François Truffaut’s life and films are mixed up.His main themes were passion, women, childhood and faithfulness.