FREN 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Les 400 Coups, Antoine Doinel, François Truffaut
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Want to undo ideas and quality placed in french cinema. Intimacy started to be incorporated into film. Venue measures amount of success movie carries. Antoine lives in paris with his cold and uncaring mother and his friendly but impatient stepfather. Both seem to pay little attention to antoine. In school, he often rebels against the un- motivating learning environment to which he prefers the freedom of the parisian streets. As the situation at home and at school worsens, he chooses to run away and live off the streets. His friend ren helps him by hiding him at his house.
