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The 400 Blows (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French film
directed by François Truffaut. One of the defining films of the French New
Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The
story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris, who
is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.
A semi-autobiographical film, reflecting events of Truffaut's and his
friend's lives, its style amounts to Truffaut's personal history of French
film ? most notably a scene borrowed wholesale from Jean Vigo's Zéro de
conduite. It is dedicated to the man who became his spiritual father, André
Bazin, who died just as the film was about to be shot.
Besides being a character study, the film is an exposé of the injustices
of the treatment of juvenile offenders in France at the time.
Title The English title is a straight translation of the
Black Rainbow
Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones