Consider the following questions about François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) and share your comments in the thread below. Continue checking the discussion threads to read your classmates comments. Find opportunities to reply with your thoughts to their posts, so we can have a mutual exchange of ideas and engage in discussion together about the film. At the end of the week, your instructor will post additional research from various critics and film reviews, so be sure to view those as well.

How would you apply the tenets of the French New Wave to this film? Cite specific examples from the film to support your conclusions.

Describe the opening of the film. What do you think the director’s intention was? What do you think about the last sequence/shot in the film? What is the symbolic meaning?

In the scene which Antoine is looking into a mirror and we see his reflection multiple times, how does this relate to himself, his mother and his family situation? The class in English pronunciation revolves around the question “Where is the Father?” How does this phrase resonate within the film?

What questions, if any, do you have about the material from this unit?

All of the sound and dialogue was dubbed in this film. Why do you think the director choose this way to record sound?

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