The release of François Truffaut’sThe 400 Blowsin 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. ButThe 400 Blowsnot only introduced the world to Truffaut—it also unveiled his most 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. This box set presents Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature filmsThe 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board,andLove on the Run,and the short subjectAntoine and Colette.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
In the 4K UHD edition: Four 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and four Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 4K restoration ofLes mistons,Truffaut’s 1957 short film, with commentary by Claude de Givray, Truffaut’s then assistant director
Two audio commentaries forThe 400 Blows,one featuring film scholar Brian Stonehill and the other Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
Archival interviews with Truffaut and his collaborators, including actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, and Marie-France Pisier and cowriters de Givray and Bernard Revon
Video essays by film historian Serge Toubiana forStolen KissesandLes mistons
Introducing My Father,François Truffaut, a 2019 interview with Laura Truffaut by filmmaker Daniel Raim
Trailers
PLUS: Essays by Annette Insdorf, Kent Jones, Andrew Sarris, Noah Baumbach, and Chris Fujiwara, and a 1971 piece by Truffaut
Covers by Lucien S. Y. Yang
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud),The 400 Blowssensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood. The film established Truffaut as a trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.
Stolen Kisses
Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightfulStolen Kisses,the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually lovestruck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic,Stolen Kissesis François Truffaut’s timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.
Bed and Board
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel,Bed and Board,finds our hapless hero once again in crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque,Bed and Boardis a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Love on the Run
Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. The newly single Doinel finds an object of his affections in Sabine, a record-store salesgirl whom he pursues with the fervid belief that without love, one is nothing. Along the way, he renews his acquaintance with previous loves and confronts his own chaotic past. InLove on the Run,Antoine Doinel is still in love, and because he’s still in love, he’s still alive.
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The release of François Truffaut’sThe 400 Blowsin 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. ButThe 400 Blowsnot only introduced the world to Truffaut—it also unveiled his most 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. This box set presents Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature filmsThe 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board,andLove on the Run,and the short subjectAntoine and Colette.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
In the 4K UHD edition: Four 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and four Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 4K restoration ofLes mistons,Truffaut’s 1957 short film, with commentary by Claude de Givray, Truffaut’s then assistant director
Two audio commentaries forThe 400 Blows,one featuring film scholar Brian Stonehill and the other Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
Archival interviews with Truffaut and his collaborators, including actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, and Marie-France Pisier and cowriters de Givray and Bernard Revon
Video essays by film historian Serge Toubiana forStolen KissesandLes mistons
Introducing My Father,François Truffaut, a 2019 interview with Laura Truffaut by filmmaker Daniel Raim
Trailers
PLUS: Essays by Annette Insdorf, Kent Jones, Andrew Sarris, Noah Baumbach, and Chris Fujiwara, and a 1971 piece by Truffaut
Covers by Lucien S. Y. Yang
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud),The 400 Blowssensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood. The film established Truffaut as a trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.
Stolen Kisses
Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightfulStolen Kisses,the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually lovestruck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic,Stolen Kissesis François Truffaut’s timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.
Bed and Board
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel,Bed and Board,finds our hapless hero once again in crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque,Bed and Boardis a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Love on the Run
Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. The newly single Doinel finds an object of his affections in Sabine, a record-store salesgirl whom he pursues with the fervid belief that without love, one is nothing. Along the way, he renews his acquaintance with previous loves and confronts his own chaotic past. InLove on the Run,Antoine Doinel is still in love, and because he’s still in love, he’s still alive.
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The release of François Truffaut’sThe 400 Blowsin 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. ButThe 400 Blowsnot only introduced the world to Truffaut—it also unveiled his most 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. This box set presents Truffaut’s celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature filmsThe 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board,andLove on the Run,and the short subjectAntoine and Colette.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
In the 4K UHD edition: Four 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and four Blu-rays with the films and special features
New 4K restoration ofLes mistons,Truffaut’s 1957 short film, with commentary by Claude de Givray, Truffaut’s then assistant director
Two audio commentaries forThe 400 Blows,one featuring film scholar Brian Stonehill and the other Truffaut’s lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
Archival interviews with Truffaut and his collaborators, including actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, and Marie-France Pisier and cowriters de Givray and Bernard Revon
Video essays by film historian Serge Toubiana forStolen KissesandLes mistons
Introducing My Father,François Truffaut, a 2019 interview with Laura Truffaut by filmmaker Daniel Raim
Trailers
PLUS: Essays by Annette Insdorf, Kent Jones, Andrew Sarris, Noah Baumbach, and Chris Fujiwara, and a 1971 piece by Truffaut
Covers by Lucien S. Y. Yang
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud),The 400 Blowssensitively recreates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood. The film established Truffaut as a trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.
Stolen Kisses
Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightfulStolen Kisses,the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually lovestruck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic,Stolen Kissesis François Truffaut’s timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.
Bed and Board
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel,Bed and Board,finds our hapless hero once again in crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque,Bed and Boardis a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Love on the Run
Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. The newly single Doinel finds an object of his affections in Sabine, a record-store salesgirl whom he pursues with the fervid belief that without love, one is nothing. Along the way, he renews his acquaintance with previous loves and confronts his own chaotic past. InLove on the Run,Antoine Doinel is still in love, and because he’s still in love, he’s still alive.
