Jul 9th
The 400 Blows**
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)
(Fra 1959)
A boy plays truant from school and then also his dysfunctional parents, and is eventually sent to a correctional facility from where he also escapes.
One of the first signs of the French New Wave in the 1950s, an unsentimentally nostalgic drama by Truffaut, clearly based in part on his own childhood, capturing dingy Paris from a youngster's perspective without any romanticism but plenty of affection.
Written and Directed by: Francois Truffaut.
Producers: Francois Truffaut, Georges Charlot.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Patrick Auffay, Guy Decomble.
Photography: Henri Decae.
Music: Jean Constantin.
+ the title, in its French form, refers not to corporal punishment but to the raising of hell (by mischievous teenagers)
The 400 Blows**
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)
(Fra 1959)
A boy plays truant from school and then also his dysfunctional parents, and is eventually sent to a correctional facility from where he also escapes.
One of the first signs of the French New Wave in the 1950s, an unsentimentally nostalgic drama by Truffaut, clearly based in part on his own childhood, capturing dingy Paris from a youngster's perspective without any romanticism but plenty of affection.
Written and Directed by: Francois Truffaut.
Producers: Francois Truffaut, Georges Charlot.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Patrick Auffay, Guy Decomble.
Photography: Henri Decae.
Music: Jean Constantin.
+ the title, in its French form, refers not to corporal punishment but to the raising of hell (by mischievous teenagers)
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