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The 400 Blows was the movie that, along with Breathless, literally kick-started the audacious and revolutionary Nouvelle Vague (the French New Wave) film movement. Like his equally celebrated contemporaries (Goddard, Chabrol et al), Francois Truffaut, a former film critic at Cashiers Du Cinema, left his desk job and entered cinema’s pantheon of legends with his seminal debut feature. This semi-autobiographical tale (drawn heavily from the life of the filmmaker) chronicles the troubled adolescence of Antoine Doinel, a rebellious and perennially misunderstood teenager with equally troubled parents, who prefers freedom and cinema over discipline and school-life. The lyrical storytelling, a nostalgic look at lost innocence and enduring friendship, and a poetic depiction of the city of
Note: My recent review of the film can be found here.
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Director: Francois Truffaut
Genre: Drama/Urban Drama/Coming-of-Age/Buddy Film
Language: French
Country: France
2 comments:
Yeah, this is a great film, probably the best Truffaut ever made. It's deeply inspired by Jean Vigo's Zero For Conduct, a very similar nostalgic ode to rebellious youth -- and an even better one, if you ask me.
I would gladly second your views. i haven't seen the Vigo classic you mentioned, but i'm sure very few movies in general & on teengers in particular can aspire to be as good as this one.
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