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FilmNR1959
The 400 Blows
Directed by François Truffaut
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures. From TMDB
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The 400 Blows is a 1959 drama film, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier and Albert Rémy.
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60 of 138 · most liked firstJust re-watched Truffuart’s fantastic The 400 Blows. The scene of the young children watching the puppet show is so wonderful it’s worth seeing the film for that alone.
positive · AI labelView post →Diva (1981) is on my list to watch because it was edited by Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte. Born to a mother from France and a father from Martinique, Yayotte was a favorite of French New Wave directors & edited 75 films. She won a César for her work editing François Truffaut's The 400 Blows. Gift Link
neutral · AI labelView post →François Truffaut’s first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 4, 1959.
neutral · AI labelView post →70. THE 400 BLOWS 71. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 72. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE 73. PIERROT LE FOU #film #watchwithjen
neutral · AI labelView post →French Film and Television star Claire Maurier (1929-2026) has died at the age of 97. Probably best remembered as the mother in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959); we also remember her in French #FilmNoir classic Le Dos au Mur (Back to the Wall/ 1958). #RIP
neutral · AI labelView post →A pretty fabulous week of first watches. The 400 Blows though, what a film. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
positive · AI labelView post →just watched “The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)” (1959), a really terrific teenage rebellion movie that is grounded in rebellion as a natural response to the indifference and resentment of the adults. the extreme youth of the lead nicely underscores how the adults are the real failures.
positive · AI labelView post →No intention, but sad child week. Aftersun - Great atmosphere and performances. The 400 Blows - Timeless and beautifully crafted. The Quiet Girl - Tender and heartbreaking. The Fantastic 4 - My favorite superhero movie this year. #LastFourWatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Watching another French film 🇫🇷 The 400 Blows (1959)
neutral · AI labelView post →growing up hearing people talk, and in film class, I thought Citizen Kane was the Citizen Kane of movies and then maybe started to think Casablanca was the Citizen Kane of movies but as an adult I've realized The 400 Blows is Citizen kane of movies. does that make sense. i've never seen any of these
positive · AI labelView post →The final scene of Mark S and Helly R running down the hall panicked and giddy into a freeze frame zoom quotes Truffaut's [The 400 Blows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_400_Blows). In that film and several that followed, the character of Antoine Doinel, age 14, represents a younger facet of the director himself. He is an innie Truffaut, if you will, coming of age. In the climax, the rebellious delinquent Doinel escapes from the reform school to which he has been confined and runs to the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 16: 1950's, 1 film per director Tokyo Story Seven Samurai Vertigo Sansho Dayu The Seventh Seal Pather Panchali The Human Condition Ordet Limelight Hiroshima mon Amour A Man Escaped Les Vacances des M. Hulot The Cranes are Flying The 400 Blows Nights of Cabiria 12 Angry Men #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched a French movie called The 400 Blows. Not nearly as enticing as the title led me to believe. I'm going back to Swedish films.
negative · AI labelView post →As I got older, my taste got more "arthouse" and "cult", and she indulged. After sitting through Eraserhead on VHS with me, grandma decided she'd just excuse herself from watching the movie she rented that night, and so missed my first viewing of The 400 Blows and Rocky Horror.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also I have an insane moral choice tomorrow where both a trans social in my new city and a showing of The 400 Blows, a movie I have not yet seen and badly want to, are happening in the same building at the same time
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch Linklater introduce Godard's foundational classic, a risk-taking work of personal expression that dared to reinvent film language. Then immerse yourself in more French New Wave favorites like THE 400 BLOWS, CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, and many others now streaming!
neutral · AI labelView post →A response to my viewing of The 400 Blows — “if a movie is only as good as its ending, this may be the best movie of all.”
positive · AI labelView post →#filmsky Confessional cinema reached a stunning peak in Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (out today, 1959), reflecting on his sad childhood. A deeply moving film, young Jean-Pierre Leaud perfectly captures the sense of a rebellious adolescence and the solace he finds in cinema. A true classic.
positive · AI labelView post →DVR alert! @tcmtv.bsky.social is showing two excellent films Tuesday morning by Federico Fellini (I Vitelloni, 1953, Italian) and François Truffaut (The 400 Blows, French, 1959). Fellini’s film is at 9:30am ET, Truffaut’s at 11:30am. Talented directors at the top of their game. #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#otd in 1959 "The 400 Blows", a film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, is released. What’s your favorite French Film? Mine is The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.
neutral · AI labelView post →The 400 Blows? I’ll tell you what that film can blow: me, while I’m enjoying the perfect Josh Brolin cinematic vehicle Thrashin’
negative · AI labelView post →You know that feeling when you fill in a long overdue blindspot on your movie watchlist and it's GD brilliant and you want to discuss it with anyone or everyone but you're also too embarrassed to admit you've never seen The 400 Blows until today? Just wondering... #filmsky #criterion #movies
positive · AI labelView post →I haven't seen The 400 Blows since undergrad but I just remembered the last scene of that movie and now I'm like I gotta watch The 400 Blows again
positive · AI labelView post →Akira Kurosawa is going to dominate this list. Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, There's just no arguing that those are some of the best films of the 50s. But there's also Ben Hur, Vertigo, 12 Angry Men, The 400 Blows, The Seventh Seal, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train... How do you choose?
neutral · AI labelView post →What a lineup of films! Purple Noon felt like meeting a person that just understands me. The 400 Blows was so emotional and powerful. Timecode is one of the most innovative movies I’ve ever seen. Night of the Reaper was a fun horror movie! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →The 400 Blows. An actual coming- of-age French film from 1959. (No pun intended)
neutral · AI labelView post →𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛. For our 400th episode, we're proving we're men by discussing the movie we covered back in our first one: THE 400 BLOWS (1959)! And having some silly fun along the way! You know how much we like that! (links in 🧵) #filmsky #movies #podcast
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched The 400 Blows though I had completely forgotten the last third of the movie so that felt new to me. Learned a lot about parenting.
positive · AI labelView post →I can’t believe it took me this long to watch The 400 Blows. As a certified Truffaut fan, this movie was one I hadn’t seen. So wonderful!
positive · AI labelView post →The 400 Blows is a film for adults, but it centers the experience of a young boy, helping to humanize him for the audience. And that is part of the magic of film. moviesanduspod.podbean.com?utm_source=b... #moviesandus #the400blows #classicfilm #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →We are back with our 400TH EPISODE! 😳 🤯 We reflect on the last 400 episodes of Movies & Us and, in celebration, review The 400 Blows. We discuss how the music, pacing, and cinematography work together to make an immersive film. moviesanduspod.podbean.com?utm_source=b... #moviesandus #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Get ready for a fun-filled June! 🪂 Mission: Impossible--The Final Reckoning 🎶 Frame by Frame: Sinners 📱 DJ Ahmet 🍿 Slanted 🌊 The 400 Blows (our 400th episode!) 🦈 Jaws 🛥️ & Us Voices: Jaws Heart-stopping Scenes What movies are you looking forward to watching this month? #moviesandus #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching THE 400 BLOWS with the 11-year-old makes this movie an entirely different experience!
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow @glennkenny.bsky.social commentary on Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Fox Lorber DVD) increased my appreciation of the film so much. And the recs for further reading given were: Truffaut bio (de Baecque, Toubiana), Truffaut's The Films of My Life, Grove Press book Hoped for info on editing. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →I *adore* this movie. Favorite film from 1959, which is no small statement, given Some Like It Hot, Black Orpheus, The 400 Blows, North by Northwest, and so on. But yeah, Ozu was a genius like that. His '34 silent original, A Story of Floating Weeds, was solid, too, but this? This was -special.-
positive · AI labelView post →"I appreciate the craft and it kept me interested but sadly I was expecting something more from a movie on so many greatest of all time lists." My ★★★½ Letterboxd review of THE 400 BLOWS (1959) directed by François Truffaut #CriterionChallenge 📽️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →#OTD 6 February 1932 François Truffaut was born. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows (1959) is a classic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1950s: '50: Sunset Blvd. '51: Ace in the Hole '52: High Noon '53: The Naked Spur '54: Seven Samurai '55: The Night of the Hunter '56: The Searchers '57: The Bridge on the River Kwai '58: Vertigo '59: The 400 Blows What are yours? #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →"Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes, I'd tell them the truth, and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie." 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 4 May 1959, #FrançoisTruffaut's coming-of-age classic "The 400 Blows," starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, premiered at Cannes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably no story since The 400 Blows excited François Truffaut as much as Day for Night. It’s a film about film-making from a celebrated film lover; it’s hard to see how the subject could have failed to energize him.
neutral · AI labelView post →SUDDEN TOHO VOLCANO would improve most movie endings. #driveinmob Chinatown The 400 Blows Rocky IV On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Ordinary People All would be improved.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film major here, the amount of people who were in my film classes who had never seen like Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, Bycicle Thieves, ect was so disappointing 😞
positive · AI labelView post →Is it true that Truffaut authored a film predicting your show way back in 1959? Mama Dick III says yeah it’s called “The 400 Blows” #testshow400
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey if Truffaut could be a harsh hated film critic and then come out the gate making The 400 Blows, maybe it’s not a bad thing to have a lot of opinions on film you want to share. Maybe one can aid the other rather than them being completely separate.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's second movie is The 400 Blows (1959) 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Right now, their predictions are basically the music equivalent of: "Oh, you liked THE 400 BLOWS? Then maybe you'll enjoy this other French film, TAXI 5!"
neutral · AI labelView post →New Review: Ghibli inspirations - The 400 Blows. Seminal French New Wave film follows a troubled boy (Jean-Pierre Léaud) as home life and school life collapse around him. The New Wave has been cited among Isao Takahata's influences, and it's easy to see the echoes in Takahata's work. bit.ly/4xGdVyM
neutral · AI labelView post →#LittleFugitive imprints are all over The 400 Blows, down to the carnival rides. This tiny film had a massive influence. #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of a European seaside scene from a 1950s French New Wave or Italian Neo-Realist film.... something like François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" (1959). 📷🎬 #photography #monochrome #ECK #streetphotography #architecture #sunny
neutral · AI labelView post →Wonderful film. The first act is utterly perfect. And the film crackles with the same inarticulate lack of patience as The 400 Blows, with similar quality; and I thought I fidanzati was even better...
positive · AI labelView post →I had to watch The 400 Blows in a fim studies course I took as an elective. Absolutely brilliant film, I couldn't tear my eyes off the screen. It has such a manic energy.
positive · AI labelView post →Four word movie review for The 400 Blows (1959): Life sucks; French masterclass
positive · AI labelView post →Morrissey Unofficial Videos uses clips from Francis Truffaud's 1959 French coming-of-age film, "The 400 Blows(Les quatre cents coups) to go with, Because Of My Poor Education www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSO...
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie at times reminds me of another movie, The 400 Blows - particularly the ending. I was talking to a friend about how the camera relentlessly following a running boy who stares at you when he can’t run any further symbolises that he cannot run away from himself. 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2025FilmChallenge Jun 16 Favourite child character in film Antoine Doinel – The 400 Blows (1959) A rebellious boy struggling with neglect and authority. Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical character launched the French New Wave’s heart.
neutral · AI labelView post →That movie, Night of the Hunter, The 400 Blows, Where is My Friend's House, Beasts of the Southern Wild... the kid-centered-but-not-really-for-kids genre contains so many of my heart's favorite cinematic masterpieces
positive · AI labelView post →my Letterboxd page: now with (some) star ratings! gather your nearest and dearest and gawk for hours at the woman who thinks Death To Smoochy is better than The 400 Blows! letterboxd.com/the_whining_...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes, I'd tell them the truth, and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie." 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 4 May 1959, #FrançoisTruffaut's coming-of-age New Wave classic "The 400 Blows," starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, hit 🇫🇷
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and The 400 Blows. Poignant movies that feel very emotionally honest about young people.
positive · AI labelView post →The English language arts curriculum I’ve been working on as an editor for the last three years has students watching and learning about Georges Méliès, but we as a nation should do much more. Field trips to Pather Panchali and The 400 Blows!
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