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November 1st 2008 01:50
400 blows
The 400 Blows (Les Quatres cents Coups) is French New Wave director Francois Truffaut's unsentimental yet powerful depiction of a boy on the brink of adulthood, attempting to navigate his way around a largely hostile and repressive adult world. This film is more than just an interesting glimpse into times past; it is a timeless portrayal of youth trying to make sense of the world as childhood gives way to the conflicts and expectations of growing maturity. * The 400 Blows won Truffaut a prize for best director, at Cannes in 1959. Jean-Pierre Leaud, who plays the lead role of Antoine Doinel conveys, with rare authenticity, the thoughts and the often irreconciliable emotions that govern the boy's actions. * The film is sparse. A black and white semi-autobiographical snap-shot that describes, with unembellished dialogue in uncontrived scenes, the recognizable need that shapes the character and drives all human eneadvour: to be loved and accepted for who you are. * The ways of the adult world are being fathomed but the unguarded exuberance of childhood has not yet gone. In the way of a child, the boy tries to please his cold and selfish mother and he clowns for his classmates. Even the theft that lands him in juvenile detention seems comically innocent. He steals a typewriter from his father's workplace and is caught only because he tries to return it. * The camera work, said to be ahead of its time, reveals the fate of the boy in his struggle between conformity and acceptance. The final freeze-frame is heart-wrenching. It is like seeing a child getting their face slapped hard.

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Comment by Cibbuano

December 5th 2008 03:07


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Teresa, one of my all-time favourite movies. A playful, intimate representation of the director's life as a young boy. Misunderstood and labelled as worthless!


Comment by Teresa Ralton

December 5th 2008 04:06


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I had heard of The 400 Blows but only saw it earlier this year. I was incredibly moved and also impressed because this film has a power that seems to have not been affected, not in the slighest, by the passing of time.

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