The 400 Blows (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2017
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Criterion Collection
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
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)
Truffaut's autobiographical debut feature introduced one of cinema's greatest anti-heroes to the screen -- 12-year-old Antonie Doinel...
Sight and Sound
It would be impossible to screen a more infectious film than The 400 Blows.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 5/5 --
What is there to say about The 400 Blows that hasn't already been said?
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
...[A] truly authentic coming-of-age movie....Truffaut helped to usher in the New Wave of French filmmaking...
Premiere
Rating: 5/6 --
One of the first glistening droplets of the French New Wave.
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Time Out
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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