The 400 Blows (Criterion, Art House Collection)
Angel faces hell-bent for violence.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean-Pierre Léaud | |
Performer: | Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Claire Maurier & Patrick Auffray | |
Directed by | François Truffaut | |
Edited by | Marie-Josephe Yoyotte | |
Screenwriting by | François Truffaut & Marcel Moussy | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Decaë |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1959 -
Best Director: François Truffaut
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Seems forever young.
Chicago Tribune
...THE 400 BLOW's one of the most intensely touching stories ever made about a young adolescent...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Henri Decae's black and white photography helped Truffaut enormously but what the director himself provides is a sense that though there is no easy answer to the problems of growing up, there is a hope that will never be wholly denied.
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London Evening Standard
This beautiful, tough and some- times funny film is a lesson (by implication) in love : here's what it does, being without it.
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The Spectator
...[A] truly authentic coming-of-age movie....Truffaut helped to usher in the New Wave of French filmmaking...
Premiere
Rating: 5/5 --
Distinguished by its naturalistic, quasi-documentary approach and an extraordinary central performance from the 12-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud, this is a blisteringly authentic story.
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Times (UK)
Without ever being sentimental, the film draws a moving contrast between the purity, honesty and sheer courage of the boy and the corruption or obtuseness of the adults who control his life.
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Esquire Magazine
Product Description:
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him for his love and his promises to work harder in school. Meanwhile, his schoolteacher is out to get him and blames Antoine for everything--turning him into the class clown. As a result, Antoine runs away from school and his difficult family, living on the streets of Paris and committing petty crimes. While his life on the street is tough, it's much better than dealing with his preoccupied parents and his accusatory teacher. Nonetheless, things only go downhill for Antoine, descending to a simultaneously painful and beautiful conclusion.
A truly impressive film, THE 400 BLOWS is raw, honest, and intensely emotional. Imbued with a strong and complex personality, Antoine maintains his poise and self-confidence, even as he endures abusive treatment from every adult he encounters. René Simonet (Patrick Auffray) is Antoine's one pal, and the unspoken dialogues between the boys, depicted by Truffaut through the boys' facial expressions and with masterful roving photography, allow the viewer to see through Antoine's eyes and understand his unflinching tenacity. Few films have captured the difficulties of childhood as well as this acclaimed French masterpiece. Essentially the start of the French New Wave movement, THE 400 BLOWS is also the beginning of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle, which follows Léaud as Antoine in five additional films over the course of 20 years.
A truly impressive film, THE 400 BLOWS is raw, honest, and intensely emotional. Imbued with a strong and complex personality, Antoine maintains his poise and self-confidence, even as he endures abusive treatment from every adult he encounters. René Simonet (Patrick Auffray) is Antoine's one pal, and the unspoken dialogues between the boys, depicted by Truffaut through the boys' facial expressions and with masterful roving photography, allow the viewer to see through Antoine's eyes and understand his unflinching tenacity. Few films have captured the difficulties of childhood as well as this acclaimed French masterpiece. Essentially the start of the French New Wave movement, THE 400 BLOWS is also the beginning of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle, which follows Léaud as Antoine in five additional films over the course of 20 years.
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