Annie's Staff Pick, Plus Q&A with Guest Critic Chris Heselden
The 400 Blows
Often hailed as one of the greatest films of all time, Truffaut's autobiographical coming of age tale covers cruelty, absent parenting and teenage deliquency with honesty and humour.
Director: François Truffaut
Cast includes: Jean-Pierre Léaud
99 mins / 1959 / France, subtitles
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.
The film marked Truffaut’s passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave and is one of the most well-known films of this movement. It has been embraced and hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.
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