The 400 Blows

1959 • 100 minutes
4.5
71 reviews
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François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime. The film marked Truffaut’s passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.

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4.5
71 reviews
Sweet Home Alamanda
February 3, 2016
Great classic, foreign film about a boy's coming of age in Paris, France in the 1960s. You won't even need subtitles, as the story is acted out so well that the storyline becomes self-explanitory.
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Allan M
February 22, 2022
Not about the movie, just disappointed with the service I rented it and it then told me video unavailable..
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Michael Madison
September 7, 2017
Just a great movie about being a bad kid. :) it is wonderful
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