The Four Hundred Blows

In The 400 Blows, François Truffaut follows Antoine Doinel, a boy who, after a severe punishment, begins to drift away from school and into a cycle of small acts of rebellion with his friend René. The film marks Jean-Pierre Léaud’s debut in a role that would become central to Truffaut’s work and to the Nouvelle Vague imagination. Restored, this return to cinemas is part of the rediscovery of the cinema of a filmmaker who was decisive for modern cinema.