The Film Les 400 Coups By Antoine Truffaut

The film Les 400 Coups is autobiographical, through the character of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut recounts the struggles of his upbringing as a troubled young adolescent in Paris. Les 400 Coups (a French expression meaning to “raise hell”) shows the result of neglectful, or entirely absent, parenting as it is of youth delinquency. Antoine is certainly not blameless, many of his actions are dictated by necessity. He is a victim of circumstance. There is no doubt as to where our sympathies lie or where to appropriate blame.
Les 400 Coups is most significant innovation in its innovation of auteurism – a notion that the director of a film is also its ‘author’ and ultimate creative voice. The idea of the camera stylo (camera pen) proposed that the