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Skyscore

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12 years 1 month ago

The plot just meandered along without any real destination then it just finished, really bluntly. The ending is a metaphor for the film, it ran on until there was no where for it to go anymore, starring at the audience as if to say 'what on earth am I doing?'

Don't waste your time on this, maybe try the Bike Thief instead.

10 years 3 months ago

CDF

Dull

12 years 10 months ago

Angellike

I am inclined to agree with punchingseagulls. Also thought of the Bicycle Thief being a better option.

10 years 3 months ago

chunkylefunga

Whilst I enjoyed the acting I found the film to rather slow and tedious.

I didn't connect with Antoine at all. I understand how he was a victim of circumstances but I didn't really feel for him.

12 years 2 months ago

Tiago Costa

4 /5

7 years 8 months ago

kurvduam

(removed by mod: please post in English)

7 years 10 months ago

heat_

Pages of articles, opinions, analyses could be written just for the ending scene.
Timeless piece of art.

3 years 3 months ago

heat_

Pages of articles, opinions, analyses could be written just for the ending scene.
Timeless piece of art.

3 years 3 months ago

catherinefrances

Such an introspective film about an unwanted child.

3 years 8 months ago

RosePlantQueen

Such a sad film.

12 years 10 months ago

Paper_Okami

This movie is amazing!

13 years 10 months ago

eduaudy

Such a great film... That last scene may be one of the best endings I've ever seen.

9 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows) is cousin to his early short film Les Miston (The Brats), similarly semi-autobiographical and about young boys misbehaving. And it's incredibly well-observed and truthful in its depiction of young people, and how they might bear the brunt of the generation gap. Antoine is on the young side of adolescence, disinterested in school, prone to truancy, and at home, an annoyance to his parents. Without ever glorifying his behavior, the film puts us on his side as he interacts with uncaring authority figures at school, home and the justice system. This may be the first and best film about systemic ageism (seniors like to think ageism victimizes them, but having worked with youth groups for decades, I can tell you young people get it as bad or worse). Every kid has felt the adult world's unfairness, but as they grow up and become unfair themselves, they tend to forget how it used to be. Truffaut doesn't and does his best to remind us. A note on the title: In French (and this isn't an expression I've ever heard in Canada), "les 400 coups" is part of an expression that means "raising hell", but it's also a pun implying "blows" or "knocks", all the things beating Antoine down (and yet not corporeal punishment, which would have muddied the point). The English title gets the pun, but doesn't rotate back to the "mischief" meaning of "coups".

5 years 2 months ago

fonz

One of my favorites. Antoine Doinel is like a French Holden Caulfield--at odds with the world around him, either by choice or by design . Neither take their studies very seriously and both end up confined at the end of their stories.

8 years 5 months ago