For many, the greatest of all directors, few artists can claim to have had as seismic an impact on 20th-century cinema as Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic bad boy of the French New…
Tag: Jean-Pierre Léaud
An Essay on How ‘The 400 Blows’ is an unconventional film in its narration: For the context of classical conventions of narration we would prefer to follow the characteristics of Classical Hollywood…
It is one of the most beloved films of the French new wave. But why does The 400 Blows hold up so well? It’s clear why Breathless does – its fretful jump-cuts,…
I did read quite a bit about Francois Truffaut before watching ‘The 400 Blows’ and found the man notoriously interesting. Before Truffaut made his debut as a film director, he was a vehement film critic who infamously stripped movies he didn’t like, in his reviews. His harsh film criticism barred him from attending the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Only one year later, he won the Best Director Award at the same festival for his debut film The 400 Blows. He was also one of the men who devised “The Auteur Theory”,