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Review
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Intense study of a disaffected youth, Antonine Doinel, who
slides from school miscreant to juvenile delinquent.
Autobiographical elements from Truffaut; authentic and
honest and low-key. Last scene is justly celebrated as one
of the most memorable in film. It may strike the viewer
quite so intensely today, due to the way it has been
shamelessly stolen by other directors. The Truffaut films,
especially this one, are important to cinema buffs for the
tremendous influence they had on film-making around the
world, and still do today, especially on independent films.
Truffaut, like other members of the French "new wave" shot
outside, away from the studio, frequently improvising his
story along to accommodate the immediate, dynamic
environment. As a result, New Wave films, like independent
films today, seem far more "real" and less contrived and
packaged like Hollywood films.
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