Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Drama
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Publication Year
1959
Publisher
Duration
99 minutes
Subject
Reformatories. Doinel, Antoine (Fictitious character) Teenage boys. Male juvenile delinquents. Parent and child. Teacher-student relationships. New wave films. Criminal behavior -- Drama. Drama. France. Criminal behavior.
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Abstract
"Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinel lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense 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."
Description
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). Audio in French with optional subtitles in English.
Special features:
Two audio commentaries: one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and another by François Truffanut's lifelong friend Robert Lachenay ; rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan ; newsreel footage of Léaud in Cannes for the showing of "The 400 blows" ; excerpt from a French TV program with Truffaut discussing his youth, critical writings, and the origins of Antoine Doinel ; television intreview with Truffaut about the global financial reception of "The 400 blows" and his own critical impression of the film ; theatrical trailer.
Special features:
Two audio commentaries: one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and another by François Truffanut's lifelong friend Robert Lachenay ; rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan ; newsreel footage of Léaud in Cannes for the showing of "The 400 blows" ; excerpt from a French TV program with Truffaut discussing his youth, critical writings, and the origins of Antoine Doinel ; television intreview with Truffaut about the global financial reception of "The 400 blows" and his own critical impression of the film ; theatrical trailer.
Number of Copies
1
