The 400 Blows

François Truffaut · 1959 CE · Film · French · Contemporary

Antoine Doinel, thirteen and in the way at home, skips school in Paris, forges an excuse for it, and steals a typewriter to fund a run for freedom. Nobody in the film is a monster; he is simply surplus to everyone else's arrangements. The film that opened the French New Wave, and the first of five about the same boy.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ David Copperfield
  Charles Dickens · 1850 CE · Novel
• ↓ Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard · 1960 CE · Film — influenced by this

Attributes

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