The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection

The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection

The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Bernard Abbou, Jean-Fran?ois Bergouignan, Luc Andrieux, Patrick Auffay, Robert Beauvais
Primary Contributor: Jean-Pierre L?aud
Primary Contributor: Albert R?my
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection

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Movie Review: Another fine Criterion Blu-ray
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the last Criterion Blu-ray I'll ever have to buy in that cheap paper jacket. Shame on you Criterion for producing such a thing. However, all their new discs have the plastic shell you expect from Blu-rays and you might get one after the original pressing runs out.

The film is flawlessly presented and I recommend it highly to anyone interested in Truffaut, french films, film history, and all around creative film making. If you're idea of a good film is something directed by Michael Bay then stay clear of this one. 'Armageddon' or "The Rock" this is not.
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Summary of The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection

Released in 1959, Fran?ois Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Based on his own stormy childhood, The 400 Blows unsentimentally portrays aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut's passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe's most brilliant auteurs.
Francois Truffaut's first feature was this 1959 portrait of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre L?aud), a boy who turns to petty crime in the face of neglect at home and hard times at a reform school. Somewhat autobiographical for its director, the film helped usher in the heady spirit of the French New Wave, and introduced the Doinel character, who became a fixture in Truffaut's movies over the years. Poignant, exhilarating, and fun (there's a parade of cameo appearances from some of the essential icons and directors from the movement), this film is an important classic. --Tom Keogh
The knowing yet innocent face of Jean-Pierre Leaud, the 14-year-old star of The 400 Blows, is the heartbreaking core of Francois Truffaut's most intimate film. As Antoine Doinel, Leaud begins his career as director Truffaut's alter-ego, a young boy neglected by his mother and stepfather who, to cover his absence at school, tells a lie that leads him to run away from home and end up in reform school. There's nothing remarkable or surprising about the plot; the power of this film comes from how completely it draws you into Antoine's life. Antoine is a vivid, natural presence, one of the most compelling collaborations between a writer/director and an actor. The movie seems to capture him as he lives. Antoine endures his parent's indifference, humiliations at school, deprivation and juvenile delinquency--yet the movie never feels pitying or condescending, as if it were trying to rub your nose in Antoine's suffering. On the contrary: His resilience is what grabs you, his refusal to be broken down as he struggles towards a more adult understanding of the world. Truffaut and Leaud made many excellent films together (Day for Night, Two English Girls), including further chapters in Antoine's life (Bed and Board, Stolen Kisses), but none were quite as simple, rich, and devastatingly potent as The 400 Blows. (The title, incidentally, refers not to abuse or anything sexual, but is a French idiom for a wild and unruly youth or "raising hell.") --Bret Fetzer

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