Now, before we get into the full breakdown of how you can watch 'The 400 Blows' right now, here are some helpful info about the Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions drama flick. The 400 Blows starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 39 min. The release date of the movie is November 16th, 1959. The movie received a user score of 80/100 on TMDb, which reflects reviews from 2,256 platform users.
Want the short version of the plot? Here's the plot: "For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures."
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The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
