Criterion Trailer 5: The 400 Blows

[BlackMagnumFilms]

This was a beautiful film. The ending was really effective.

[mojohelmet]

why did the director make these kids smoke cigars? WOW!

[hallowedbeeddie]

@mojohelmet it was part of the culture in the past. I understand what you mean, but it wasnt as satanized by society back then. Just like kids in Italy were allowed to drink wine and all in Italy, they used to show that in films too.

[kean1202]

the kid has an ISTJ personality. like matt damon in good will hunting and tom cruise in magnolia

[keepcalmycarryon]

@karanmaxfilms Hogwash.

[keepcalmycarryon]

@karanmaxfilms That shit is about as obscure as fucking Coca-Cola.

[keepcalmycarryon]

If you needed the subtitles then don't even bother.

[JesusCristo2002]

@karanmaxfilms - I just saw "Contempt" and I have mixed feelings about it technically and stylistically it's one of Godard's best crafted I've seen, however I felt more of a detachment to the characters than I did in "Breathless" or "Band of Outsiders" - I get what he was trying to say in regards to the sacrifices and risks artists make when they confront the obligation to please others.

[JesusCristo2002]

@karanmaxfilms - I wouldn't call Godard "pretentious", with what he accomplished technically and stylistically, he revolutionized the way people percieved the form of filmmaking. Everyone part of the "Novelle Vague" did, but they all influenced one another. Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, Jean-luc Godard, Alain Resnais - they were all like brothers - who all possessed their own unique technique and form of filmmaking.

[smig0497]

where are le pacte des loups & jeux d'enfants & la guerre intime & bienvenue chez les c'htis I recommend this french movies highly!

[XuZhongRui]

J'adore !

[malus19891]

I prefer the later Antoine Doinel films but this is still really good

[ebemisemnogo]

The best movie EVER !!!!!!

[zaodizao]

Check out the audition of those kids it is in you tube

[mikeellerbeck]

This was a pretty good film. I wish it was a bit longer and had more emotional depth.

[zaodizao]

@mikeellerbeck

More emotional depth?????? I really dont know what you mean that movie is emotionally mindblowing

[mikeellerbeck]

@zaodizao I retract that statement. At first I thought that the mother was a bit of a weak character but the rest of the characters were amazing. I still wish it was longer though. I'll have to watch the sequels.

[mcmlcms]

I love Léaud's acting. I couldn't care less for the story, but his acting was amazing.

[kruskev]

what the hell was so touching about this film? maybe the dead emotional acting of the past is lost on me but nothing about the movie even remotely moved me.

[JeanWalton]

I like MediumRare's very succinct video interpretation of 400 blows!

[gustavx]

I like Breathless alot but this movie is WAY better.

[mimimirwitch]

i adore this film!~ <33

[OliverEByrne]

I so agree with you.The 400 blow is a masterpiece , breatthless is a big pile of shite with bad editing disguised as art lol

[Alkhir69]

How dare talk this way about Breathless6

[dominoize]

....not at all what i thought....

[Valhalla0]

My favorite film

[DeeDonner]

Didn't Pepe Lepew have a cameo role in this picture?

[CinemoiFrenchFilm]

Clouzot's critic must have been ironically chosen

[Cynnx7]

I laughed when the kid got slapped at the end.

It was very funny.

[McPhillipsHearing]

Just saw the new Blu-Ray version of this. I highly recommend for everyone to experience this classic movie in Hi-Def! Definitely worth the double-dip!

[doetim]

@McPhillipsHearing New wave on Blue Ray?

[ross894]

Les 400 Coups, une des étincelles inaugurant de la Nouvelle Vague française, se réduit à finalement la coda de trendetting du film, peut-être le point d'interrogation le plus exclamatif dans les films........... Basically, it's good.

[USCHoodman]

God after this and Breathless, Truffaut is so much better than Godard for French New Wave

[thevividend]

my friend, goddard made breathless and regardless of that how can you say that one is better that the other?

[USCHoodman]

I know Goddard made breathless, I saw both and love 400 Blows far more. Breathless is like a French Citizen Kane and almost too pompous for me to like it. I can say one is better merely even if I liked one more than the other. Eh I've just shown both to people and people can accept 400 blows more than breathless

[Sandcat87]

People can accept new Hollywood drivel a lot more than either. Doesn't mean that it's better.

[chickiesgrettagirl]

agree totally!

[keepcalmycarryon]

@Sandcat87 You have cute little opinions.

[Sandcat87]

@keepcalmycarryon You have cute little turns of phrase. :)

[keepcalmycarryon]

@Sandcat87 You are cute.

[nocountry4oldfreeman]

Finally, someone else who wasn't balls-to-the-walls crazy for Breathless. Nothing but jump-cuts does not a masterful movie make.

[at7000]

One can only hope that some future race will view this, and ponder, how such cinematic art could ever have been made, in any place or time.

[keepcalmycarryon]

@at7000 Ugh.

[cyberglyphs]

great art & filmmaker

wish he could still be at it

[peymaania]

Those irrepressible Parisians and their revolutionary antics, you just got to love it. I guess this is what they mean by vive la France!

[keepcalmycarryon]

@peymaania Vive la gay comments.

[MediumRareProduxxxns]

this is my trailer for the 400 blows, such a great film!

[Bash316]

I always liked Truffaut. His films were always charming, entertaining and cinematically inventive. To me, he was better than Godard. Godard was a weirdo, especially his later pictures.

[cgdsgns]

dünya sinemasının klasiklerinden bir yapıt

[ByandFar]

Great movie

[twafu]

the most beautiful movie...