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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Oct 17, 2010
Pros: Direction, music, performance, story
Cons: None--unless you don't dig foreign movies
Summary: The 400 Blows was one of the first films I watched that blew my mind and led the way for my interest in cinema as I fully realized the extent of it as an art film and what items it could emote. Directed by world famous French filmmaker, Francois ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 8, 2012
Pros: INSUFFERABLE lead character.
Cons: Lovely to look at, fast paced and often quite funny.
Summary: Antoine Doniel is a juvenile delinquent. He disrespects his teachers, lies even when the truth might suit him, deceives his parents, cuts class and is generally a trouble-maker. This is bad enough. What makes him a delinquent is the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2004
Pros: Skillful story-telling, outstanding cinematic technique, and engaging lead performance
Cons: Wallows in self-pity
Summary: Here’s another instance where I feel that I need to explain BOTH why this is a great film and why it is NOT as great as it is widely claimed to be. I’ll reserve my major criticism for later, in the “Assessment” section below, and begin ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 11, 2002
Pros: Acting, direction, music score
Cons: None
Summary: If ever there was a film that can stir the emotions of the viewer, than it is Francois Truffaut's "The Four Hundred Blows". This classic, semi-autobiographical film helped to usher in the French New Wave and launched Truffaut's successful and all too ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 18, 2002
Pros: Great cinematography, engaging story, perfect acting
Cons: Can't think of any
Summary: The 400 Blows is as perfect a movie as you will ever see. Francois Truffaut's first film, also regarded as the first film of the French New Wave, showcases his mastery of the medium. As the story is loosely autobiographical, and Truffaut identified ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2001
Pros: Acting, script, plot, direction.
Cons: Nothing
Summary: Before becoming directors Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were film critics. They wrote for La Cahiers Du Cinema, and in its pages they developed the Auter theory of film making. They pioneered the idea that the director is the author ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2001
Pros: casting, direction, script, story, cinematography
Cons: sometimes slow and talky, mother character, perhaps too sympathetic
Summary: It took the world by storm in 1959. During a decade in which American films about troubled youth concentrated on dramatics and confrontation (Rebel Without a Cause, The Wild One), The 400 Blows took a more realistic approach. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 10, 2001
Pros: One of the greatest films ever made.
Cons: Sequels don't live up to the original.
Summary: Les Quatre Cents Coups is a watershed film in cinema history. It is a landmark of the French New Wave and marks the launching of the career of the great Francois Truffaut. The honesty which Truffaut brings to this story and his avoidance of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 21, 2000
Pros: Not Only an Incredible Film But Also the Beginning of an Incredible Period in Film
Cons: Nothing
Summary: And so began the French New Wave as we came to know it. With The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coup), François Truffaut jumpstarted the newly formed French New Wave, a filmmaking style of intense personal films that remained stylistically different. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 6, 2000
Pros: extremely intelligent, but intimate and sensitive
Cons: may require patience
Summary: I saw this movie as an attempt to broaden my scope of movies I've seen and to get a better sense of what has happened in the past with movies. This was the first Truffaut that I've seen.
One of the best things about this ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 12, 2000
Pros: Causes great introspection; interesting cinematic study, as well.
Cons: Not a light movie.
Summary: Is there anyone who can't in their heart identify at least in some way with Antoine Doinel, the main character in "400 Blows"? This is the question that I find myself asking whenever I see this movie, because even though I definitely wouldn't ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2000
Pros: beautiful cinematography, touching story, and believable characters.
Cons: A slow moving and subtle story which doesn't hit the viewer over the head with messages.
Summary: Film is, perhaps, the most engrossing and encompassing of all the visual arts. The purpose of any good film is to draw us into the life or lives of the character(s), to elicit an emotional response to what we are viewing, and to make us hungry for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 27, 2000
Pros: Visual style, Intimate portrait, humor, poignancy.
Cons: Not plot driven
Summary: When I taught film appreciation at the high school level, one of my goals was to get my students to enjoy foreign film. I didn't want them to have an instant negative reaction the first frame an English subtitle appeared on the screen. So I used The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 10, 2000
Pros: The realism, style and class of a major directing talent
Cons: A black and white film
Summary: Francois Truffaut's first successful film, following his noteworthy career as the firebrand film critic from Cahiers du Cinema, is also the first film I am aware of to treat children seriously as people in their own right. Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 28, 2000
Pros: Truffaut, acting.
Cons: None.
Summary: Francois Truffaut's first full length movie helped to launch the French New Wave, with its unique style of hand held and low budget, Truffaut opened the door for his friends such as Godard and Rohmer (Chabrol made his first movie before Truffaut). ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 21, 1999
Pros: Revolutionary French film
Cons: Fod Lorber DVD has poor quality
Summary: I first saw 400 Blows in a film appreciation class in college. The professor was a huge Kubrick fan so I was surprised to see this film included in his class syllabus.
400 Blows is truly a classic of the French cinema period. The story of a ... read more
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