The 400 blows Les quatre cents coups

Blu-ray 1959

Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.

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ISBN:

9781681432717

Uniform Title:

Quatre cents coups (Motion picture)

Edition:

Blu-ray/DVD combo édition (Blu-ray only)

Description:

1 Blu-ray videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Blu-ray 4 3/4 in
digital optical 5.1 Dolby
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: Not rated

Other Title:

Four hundred blows [Blu-ray]
Quatre cents coups [Blu-ray]
400 coups [Blu-ray]

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1959
"Enhanced for widescreen tvs"--Container
Container insert includes an essay "Close to home" by film scholar Annette Insdorf
Special features: optional audio commentary by cinema professor Brian Stonehill; optional audio commentary by Robert Lachenay; "Auditions" featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan (7 min.); "Cannes 1959" newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes (6 min.); "Cinéastes de notre temps" television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends (23 min.); "Cinépanorama" television excerpt interview of Truffaut (7 min.); theatrical trailer (4 min.)
"Janus Films"--Container
Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; editors, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Cécile Decugis, Michèle de Possel ; music, Jean Constantin ; producer, Georges Charlot
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay
Set ISBN: 9781604658309 1604658304
Blu-ray, NTSC; region A; Dolby digital mono ; widescreen (2.35:1)
In French with optional English subtitles
Cannes Film Festival, 1959: OCIC Award; Best director

Control Number:

999978

UPC:

715515114318
715515193818

Other Authors:

Auffay, Patrick, actor
Constantin, Jean, composer
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Decae, Henri
Decomble, Guy, 1910-1964, actor
Decugis, Cécile
Films du carrosse (Firm)
Flamant, Georges, 1903-1990, actor
Givray, Claude de, screenwriter
Janus Films
Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 1944- actor
Maurier, Claire, actor
Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995, screenwriter
Revon, Bernard, 1931-1997, screenwriter
Rémy, Albert, 1911-1967, actor
S.E.D.I.F
Truffaut, François, screenwriter, director
Yoyotte, Marie-Josèphe

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