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Film Masterpieces: 400 Blows

François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. The film sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, and marks his passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs.

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