Les quatre cents coups (1959)
(The 400 Blows)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 94m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
Synopsis:
A Parisian teenager gets into trouble at school, plays truant, lies to his parents and finishes up in a young offenders institution.
Review:
Truffaut's first feature and one of the key films of the Nouvelle Vague is an autobiographical view of one Antoine Doinel's alienation - from his parents, school and, ultimately society at large - while being an entirely untypical subject of adolescent delinquency: he is gentle, childlike in his lack of worldliness, and gauche in his transgressions. It remains a vivid picture of post-war French society and offers glimpses of the director's humanism and flashes of whimsy.
(The 400 Blows)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 94m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
Synopsis:
A Parisian teenager gets into trouble at school, plays truant, lies to his parents and finishes up in a young offenders institution.
Review:
Truffaut's first feature and one of the key films of the Nouvelle Vague is an autobiographical view of one Antoine Doinel's alienation - from his parents, school and, ultimately society at large - while being an entirely untypical subject of adolescent delinquency: he is gentle, childlike in his lack of worldliness, and gauche in his transgressions. It remains a vivid picture of post-war French society and offers glimpses of the director's humanism and flashes of whimsy.
(The 400 Blows)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 94m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
Synopsis:
A Parisian teenager gets into trouble at school, plays truant, lies to his parents and finishes up in a young offenders institution.
Review:
Truffaut's first feature and one of the key films of the Nouvelle Vague is an autobiographical view of one Antoine Doinel's alienation - from his parents, school and, ultimately society at large - while being an entirely untypical subject of adolescent delinquency: he is gentle, childlike in his lack of worldliness, and gauche in his transgressions. It remains a vivid picture of post-war French society and offers glimpses of the director's humanism and flashes of whimsy.