An unsuccessful detective discovers he is equally inept when it comes to wooing members of the opposite sex - but his fledgling career leads him to the woman of his dreams. French romantic comedy, the third film in director Francois Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade and Delphine Seyrig
The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
