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French New Wave Cinema / Independent Cinema

Les Quatre Cents Coups by François Truffaut (1959)

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 - by Movies Central

Andre Bazin, the great cinema theorist, begins his cinema studies by establishing a cinema club in the House of Letters he founded in Paris. Thanks to those who come to the club, new friendships, emerging publications and the effects of those publications, a small movement evolves into the magazine: Les Cahiers du Cinema.

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Baisers Volés by François Truffaut (1968)

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 - by Movies Central

The story of Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) in Baisers volés (1968) that he did not belong to the world of adults was actually the remains of Truffaut’s own life. The attitude of the director, who grew up with his stepfather figure in an environment where he could not adapt, by seeing his grandmother rather than his mother, was in parallel with Doinel, who was tangent to 68 uprisings