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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:48
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9.3/10
Consensus: A seminal French New Wave film that offers an honest, sympathetic, and wholly heartbreaking observation of adolescence without trite nostalgia.
Theatrical Release:10-04-2009
Synopsis: Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His... [More]
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble
Director: Francois Truffaut
Henri Decae’s black and white photography helped Truffaut enormously but what the director himself provides is a sense that though there is no easy answer to the problems of growing up, there is a hope that will never be wholly denied.
It's a cornerstone of the French New Wave, and one of the greatest movies about childhood, from anywhere, ever.
Still one of the cinema's most perceptive forays into childhood.
Top CriticA landmark in modern cinema.
Top CriticFrançois Truffaut's iconoclastic feature debut and one of the most enduring examples of the French New Wave.
Top CriticIt's streetwise stuff, shot in a vigorous on-the-hoof style, but also full of joy, both in its blissfully comic moments and in Doinel's telling passion for moviegoing.
Vibrant, visually exciting and emotionally resonant.
Top CriticOne of the first glistening droplets of the French New Wave.
Top CriticWhat is there to say about The 400 Blows that hasn't already been said?
Top CriticDistinguished by its naturalistic, quasi-documentary approach and an extraordinary central performance from the 12-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud, this is a blisteringly authentic story.
Top CriticExtraordinary.
Forget my curmudgeonly attitude and see it -- again, or for the first time -- for yourself.
[Truffaut's} eye for telling detail is unrivaled...
Amazingly, this vigorous effort is the first feature film of M. Truffaut, who had previously been (of all things!) the movie critic for a French magazine.
Top CriticNo review available.
Francois Truffaut's debut film not only galvanized the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) movement of French cinema, but also generated a personal language of cinema that Truffaut would elaborate on for the rest of his career.
Truffault's masterpiece. Timeless and true, heartbreakingly sad.
Distinguished by its intensity of feeling and freewheeling use of the wide-screen frame, the film ranks among Truffaut's best.
A movingly sympathetic and perceptive portrayal about an unwanted rebellious adolescent.
Truffaut's brilliant debut, one of the seminal works of the New Wave, is a captivating autobiographical chronicle of a troubled youth, played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, Truffaut's alter-ego who will star in four more segments of the Antoine Doinel's saga.
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