The 400 Blows

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Les quatre cents coups
Date: January 01, 1959 to December 31, 1959
Dates Note: 1959
Country of Origin: France
Place of Origin: France
Languages: French
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Description: 

The 400 Blows earned François Truffaut an enduring place in film history. Its semiautobiographical story of a lad who is unwanted by his parents, bored by school, and attracted to petty crime is told with an energetic blend of anarchy and rigor, the kind of unsentimental lyricism that was to become Truffaut’s trademark. Jean-Pierre Léaud, in his first appearance as Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel, reflects the strange sobriety of watchful youth.

Authors/Roles: 
Judy Bloch

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