Other Titles • The 400 Blows (1959) • Les Quatre cents coups • The Four Hundred Blows • Sie küßten und sie schlugen ihn (1959) • Les 400 Coups
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Special Features: Includes English commentary by Brian Stonehill and Robert Lachenay, French commentary by Marcel Moussy, and the theatrical trailer.Theatrical release: June 1959.
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Filmed entirely on location in Paris, France.
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This film is dedicated to the memory of André Bazin.
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THE 400 BLOWS was French New Wave director François Truffaut's first feature film. It won an Academy Award nomination for Best Script, and was a huge success at the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the award for Best Director--a particular triumph for Truffaut, who only a year before had been ignominiously tossed out of the festival for protesting the values of the entrenched French film establishment.
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The film's French title, LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS, comes from a colloquial term to describe adolescent rebellion.
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Truffaut originally conceived THE 400 BLOWS as a short film entitled LA FUGUE D'ANTOINE (ANTOINE RUNS AWAY), but eventually decided to make it a feature length film.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud would reprise his role as Antoine Doinel in four other Truffaut films: LOVE AT TWENTY (1962), STOLEN KISSES (1968), BED & BOARD (1970), and LOVE ON THE RUN (1979). Léaud also went on to star in films by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard.
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At one point, when Antoine and René (Patrick Auffay) ditch school and run around town, they pull a woman's picture off of a movie poster. The picture is of Harriet Andersson, who starred in Ingmar Bergman's 1952 film MONIKA.
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The long tracking shot of Antoine running at the the end of the film is one of the most famous tracking shots in the history of cinema.
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Winner of the New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film.
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