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The 400 Blows ( French: Les quatre cents coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, [3] and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote the film. Shot in the anamorphic format DyaliScope, the film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, [4] it ...
- François Truffaut, Georges Charlot
- Jean Constantin
- 4 May 1959 (France)
The 400 Blows: Directed by François Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble. A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- Camera-Obscura
- 1 min
- François Truffaut
Antoine de Baecque et Serge Toubiana, François Truffaut, Éditions Gallimard, 2001, 2 e éd. (1 re éd. 1996) Anne Gillain, Les 400 coups de François Truffaut : étude critique, Paris, Nathan, 1991; Peggy Zejgman, « Les 400 Coups : un hommage de François Truffaut à Balzac », Le Courrier balzacien, n o 93, 2003, p. 3-18
- Jean Constantin
- François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
Apr 8, 2014 · François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), was more than a semi-autobiographical film; it was also an elaboration of what the French New Wave directors would embrace as the caméra-stylo (camera-as-pen) whose écriture (writing style) could express the filmmaker as personally as a novelist’s pen. It is one of the supreme examples of “cinema in the first ...
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told from the point of view of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime.
- Antoine Doinel
Jan 6, 2022 · The 400 Blows review – François Truffaut’s coming-of-age masterwork ... now look like historical documents. The title itself, from faire les quatre cent coups, means to hand out punishment ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Jean-Pierre Léaud (centre) in Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959; The 400 Blows), directed by François Truffaut. The 400 Blows, French film drama, released in 1959, that defined the New Wave cinema movement created by young French directors in the late 1950s and ’60s. It was the first film in François Truffaut ’s acclaimed Antoine Doinel ...
