The 400 Blows (French: Les quatre cents coups) (1959) 

The 400 Blows (French: Les quatre cents coups) (1959)

Director:

Watched:

Rating: 6/10

 

“To live a wild life”,

Based on his own troubled youth,

Truffaut’s French New Wave.

Wish character developed,

Vague end, way overrated.

 

Shows things as they are,

Sensitive, solemn, stirring.

Fine camera work,

Engaging, even some laughs.

Final scene vindicating.