The 400 blows = Les quatre cents coups

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Title:

The 400 blows = Les quatre cents coups

Author:

Truffaut, François, screenwriter, film director, film producer.

Publication Information:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2014]

Physical Description:

1 blu-ray disc (99 min.) : Bluray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 5

Criterion collection ; 5.

Summary:

Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.

Special features: Commentaries: Brian Stonehill commentary (cinema professor); Robert Lachenay commentary (lifelong friend of Truffaut); Auditions (featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan, 7 min.); Cannes 1959 (newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes, 6 min.); Cinéastes de notre temps (television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends, 1965, 23 min.); Cinépanorama (television excerpt interview of Truffaut, 1960, 7 min.); Trailer (4 min.). All features available on both formats.

Language:

French

Reading Level:

Not rated.

Personal Subject:

Doinel, Antoine (Fictitious character)-Drama.

Subject Term:

Teenage boys -- France -- 20th century -- Drama.

Parent and child -- Drama.

Teacher-student relationships -- Drama.

Criminal behavior -- Drama.

Motion pictures, French.