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The 400 Blows
1959
Antoine Doinel is branded a trouble maker at his school due to his problems at home... He finds comfort at the cinema where the world can offer more than his reality. French dialogue. Read more
| Starring | jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Georges Flamant, Guy Decomble |
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| Director | Francois Truffaut |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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The 400 Blows
Antoine Doinel is branded a trouble maker at his school due to his problems at home... He finds comfort at the cinema where the world can offer more than his reality. French dialogue.
| Starring | jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Georges Flamant, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay |
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| Director | Francois Truffaut |
| Studio | Cinema Club |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1959 To Rent: DVD: 16 Dec 2002 |
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Simple tale with existential undertones
A beguiling and playful classic on the complexities of childhood and the simplicity of adulthood. Leaud plays a young tearaway who is more the victim of his own... read more »
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Influential opera prima
Truffaut pours his heart and soul into this project, one of his best known jobs, his seminal The 400 Blows, a semi-autobiographic account of his school days in ... read more »
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Really worth a viewing
This must have been one of the first films to dare to bring the gritty realism of urban life to the cinema public. You can see how this film must have inspired ... read more »
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Totally absorbing central character.
If you have a boy of about 13 or 14 you will love this film. The acting is so natural and uncontrived, I adore this film and watched it twice in one weekend. I... read more »
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Let the Right One In
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Film of the year so far! Imagine, say, My Life as a Dog, Ratcatcher, or even 400 Blows, one of those bittersweet portraits of lonely children bumping up against the hard knocks of parental neglect, abuse and poverty. Cross that kind of acute honesty and naturalism with an edgy near-the-knuckle horror movie – Near Dark, for instance, or Ringu. Now set this intriguing mutation in the suburbs of Stockholm during the depths of a Swedish winter. Let the Right One In is that movie, and it’ Read more
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