PART I: French New Wave (1958-62) - Les Quatre cents coups/The 400 Blows, 1959
Les Quatre cents coups/ The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) This is the first film of the French New Wave doing away with an obsolete French cinema that was oriented on commercial success only. Truffaut fully realizes a cinema that, as Godard put it, showed “girls as we love them, boys as we see them every day, parents as we despise or admire them, children as they astonish us or leave us indifferent; in other words, things as they are.” In this manner and inspired by his own biography, Truffaut tells the simple story of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léod) growing up in a hostile social environment, in which neither his parents nor his teachers at school are able or willing to make an effort to understand him. -Heiko Stang
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Runtime: 99
Director: François Truffaut Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble |
the 400 blows, 1960
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Les Quatre cents coups/ The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) This is the first film of the French New Wave doing away with an obsolete French cinema that was oriented on commercial success only. Truffaut fully realizes a cinema that, as Godard put it, showed “girls as we love them, boys as we see them every day, parents as we despise or admire them, children as they astonish us or leave us indifferent; in other words, things as they are.” In this manner and inspired by his own biography, Truffaut tells the simple story of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léod) growing up in a hostile social environment, in which neither his parents nor his teachers at school are able or willing to make an effort to understand him. -Heiko Stang