The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut

Steven Spielberg unabashedly claimed that Francois Truffaut is the man who loves cinema the most than anyone else ever. Which means he himself is included. In many of his interviews, Truffaut explained how the only thing he ever did was either...

Francois Truffaut, director of the film The 400 Blows (1959), concerns himself with the delinquent child abandoned by the education system and even the family. As a French New Wave director, Truffaut’s motive is to represent the real-life drama of...

The 1959 film Les 400 Coups (The Four hundred blows, a French idiom referencing something along the lines of “raising hell”) articulates the city of Paris as a city full of temptations and corruption, which shapes Antoine into the character he...