The 400 Blows

1959 • 100 minutes

About this movie

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.

Ratings and reviews

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.

Not about the movie, just disappointed with the service I rented it and it then told me video unavailable..

Just a great movie about being a bad kid. :) it is wonderful