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Owl of Minerva Film Series Spring 2016 The 400 Blows WED APR 27th | 7pm | BSCB 101 (Becker Communication Studies Bldg. auditorium) The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups): Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a misunderstood adolescent in Paris of the early 1950s, is thought by his parents and teachers to be a troublemaker. Resented at home by his mother and stepfather and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher, Antoine frequently runs away from both places. The boy finally quits school after being caught plagiarizing Balzac by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his stepfather's (Albert Remy) work place to finance his plans to leave home, but is apprehended while trying to return it. The stepfather angrily turns Antoine over to the police and Antoine spends the night in jail, sharing a cell with prostitutes and thieves. During an interview with the judge, Antoine’s mother confesses that her husband is not Antoine’s biological father. Antoine is placed in an observation center for troubled youths near the shore (as per his mother's wishes). A psychologist at the center probes reasons for Antoine's unhappiness, which the youth reveals in a fragmented series of monologues. Filmed on location in Paris and Honfleur, Les Quatre Cents Coups is the debut feature of director François Truffaut and is the first in a series of five films in which Léaud plays the semi-autobiographical character. Written by Truffaut and Marcel Moussy and one of the defining films of the French New Wave, the film received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director, the OCIC Award, and a Palme d'Or nomination in 1959. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing in 1960. Short introductory clip for The 400 Blows: Oliver Twist (2007). ‘Please sir, I want some more’. .

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