Jean-Pierre Léaud in Les 400 coups (1959) - François Truffaut
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The 400 Blows
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. Les Quatre Cents Coups Director: Francois Truffaut By Roderick Heath The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it…
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Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
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The perpetual youthfulness of 'The 400 Blows', even as the film itself approaches its 60th birthday, provides an appropriate introduction to the French New Wave, the cinematic movement that it helped inaugurate in 1959.
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Francois Truffaut's "Les Quatre Cents Coups" film. 1959. Scene: Antoine Doinel. Actor: Jean-Pierre Léaud.
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François Truffaut was casting for his first feature film The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), the semi-autobiographical tale of Antoine, a rebellious adolescent growing up in Paris. The young director had already cast Claire Maurier as Antoine’s mother, Guy Decombe and comedian Pierre Repp as his teachers, and Henri Virlojeux as the night watchman who arrests the troubled youngster for the theft of a typewriter. But still Truffaut had no one for Antoine. He placed an advert in the Paris…
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mk2 films | 👦👨👴 Growing up, but never getting old. Celebrating today the 80th birthday of Jean-Pierre Léaud. THE 400 BLOWS, 1958 ANTOINE AND… | Instagram
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400 Blows.
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François Truffaut, "The 400 Blows", final scene
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