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title: 'André Bazin'
type: 'critic-profile'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/critics/andre-bazin'
updated: '2026-07-31'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# André Bazin

A critic followed by the CinePixo community. This is a profile, not a byline:
André Bazin does not write for CinePixo, and no opinion on this site
should be attributed to this critic.

## About

Co-founder of Cahiers du Cinéma and the father of realist film theory. Bazin argued that cinema's vocation is reality — that deep focus and the long take respect the world's ambiguity where montage imposes a meaning on it — and mentored the young critics who became the French New Wave. What Is Cinema? remains the discipline's foundation stone; he died at forty, the day after Truffaut started shooting The 400 Blows.

## Elsewhere

- [What Is Cinema? (California Press)](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242272/what-is-cinema-volume-i)

## Photograph

Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andr%C3%A9_Bazin_photo_from_medical_certificate_(c._1942).jpg

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