It seems an age since I had the opportunity to "analyse" the naturalistic narrative of François Truffaut's famous 1959 movie, and it was all the better for not having 150 disinterested 18 year olds muttering in the audience around me as I did at the Sheffield Showroom days during film studies.We sat back and really enjoyed 400 Blows, not because of the famous "Mise-en-scène" but because of the wonderful central performance by Jean-Pierre Léaud as the deadpan pre teen anti hero. His haphazard journey from an unloved family homelife to correctional school is heartbreaking and compelling, and looks as fresh today as it did 50 years ago.
8/10
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