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One of the classics of the French New Wave, "The 400 Blows" still holds up today as a minor masterpiece of world cinema and is one of the finest examples of perhaps the greatest director to come out of the New Wave movement in France. The film is strongly rooted in Truffaut's not always happy childhood experiences, despite Truffaut's protest that the film was not "autobiographical". He claimed that it was a composite of the hard bourgeois life he witnessed growing up in Paris. It is, but the protagonist is very difficult to not identify with Truffaut himself. In most ways its a melancholy story about the traumas, but hopefulness, of his youth somewhat gone astray and the pains of coming of age. Truffaut's own early life was troubled in many ways, if you know his life story, but he brings to the 1960's art cinema a portrait of Parisian in which he was once imbued and so familiar with. His first commercially successful film launched a career which give us the essence of Franch New Wave Cinema for over a generation.Read full review
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great deal highly recommended , thank you, joe
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This movie has a touching storyline. It's about a small 13 year old boy who has trouble with everything. His parents are slightly abusive but bribe him for his love. This was the begining of the French New Wave.
Great thoughtful movie.
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