Comments on: Movie Review: The 400 Blows http://reeldealblog.com/2009/05/movie-review-the-400-blows/ Your source for movies and more! Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Chris http://reeldealblog.com/2009/05/movie-review-the-400-blows/#comment-49 Sat, 23 May 2009 15:36:23 +0000 http://reeldealblog.com/?p=481#comment-49 This is one of my faves. It’s hard to explain why a movie that is so thinly plotted is so compelling–you put it very nicely when you say that watching Antoine drink a bottle of milk reveals a “certain, small thing about the life of the character.” It’s Antoine’s inner life that Truffaut is concerned with, and it’s amazing how clearly he brings it into focus, sans weighty speeches or outbursts, but rather, as you say, by simple, astonishing attention to detail. Jean-Pierre Leaud deserves some credit, too, for bringing that same alertness to his performance. That walking-in-the-countryside scene is breathtaking.

There’s so much to learn here. Can’t wait to hear what you think about the rest of the Antoine Doinel cycle.

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