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The 400 Blows
Contrary to popular belief, the character of Antoine Doinel, at least as he was incarnated in The 400 Blows, was not strictly based on his creator, but was in fact synthesized from the combined experiences and memories of Truffaut and his childhood friend Robert Lachenay. Nonetheless, every frame of Truffaut’s first feature is permeated with a sense of lived experience, and a sense of loss as well: the first day of the shoot, his beloved mentor André Bazin died of leukemia. “I still retain from my childhood a great anxiety,” Truffaut once said, “and the movies are bound up with an anxiety, with an idea of something clandestine.” In its final, immortal freeze-frame, the clandestine is seized on – brutally, yet tenderly. It remains one of the most surprising endings in all of movies.
* Antoine and Colette follows the screening of The 400 Blows.
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Director: François Truffaut
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The following short films will screen before this film
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France, 1962, 30 min.
In this charming short follow-up to The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Antoine Doinel grows up, only to be disappointed in love.
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France, 1962, 30 min.
In this charming short follow-up to The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Antoine Doinel grows up, only to be disappointed in love.
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France, 1961, 105 min.
Truffaut’s third film, this adaptation of Henri Pierre-Roché’s autobiographical novel about a bittersweet ménage à trois (with the great Jeanne Moreau at the apex of the triangle) is one of the classics of modern cinema.
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