The 400 Blows is a 1959 French New Wave film directed by François Truffaut. It follows the story of Antoine Doinel, a young boy growing up in Paris in the 1950s, as he struggles with his parents, school, and the
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François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. Truffaut came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.