The 400 Blows

“Angel faces hell-bent for violence.”

In 1950s Paris, twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) lives in a cramped home with his mother Gilberte (Claire Maurier) and stepfather Julien (Albert Rémy), neither of whom has much time for him. School is no better, and he spends his free hours with his friend René (Patrick Auffay), making plans for a different life. Truffaut, in his first feature, shot on location in the real streets of Paris.