Reviews

The claustrophobia we feel in the classroom and the apartment juxtaposed with the freedom we feel when Antoine is in the wide open spaces of Paris, or even how big his friends apartment feels when he is away from his parents. ...

The 400 Blows part of the French New Wave film movement that transformed the way movie stories were portrayed on the screen. ...

Traffaut's pacing in this film I think jumps between slow- and often too long or pointless- cuts, to quick, snappy scenes. ...

Truffaut's own childhood is the basis, and for that I greatly admire his objectivity: this film never resorts to sentimentality, never attempts to defend the apparent descent of the main character into a life of crime. ...