A lovely film also known as “Bed & Board” by François Truffaut about Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud who already appeared as young Antoine in “Les quatre cents coups”) who is now 26. He married Christine, who teaches the violin, and Antoine works dying flowers. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other. 

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9gGZJdR3yg

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Also Known as “The Bride Wore Black”, a François Truffaut film with Jeanne Moreau as the widow who wants revenge for her husbands death. This film is François Truffaut’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock, made shortly after Truffaut had published a book of extensive interviews with Hitchcock. 

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb7LBLJvoc

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A film by François Truffaut with Oskar Werner, Julie Christie and Cyril Cusack. In a future totalitarian and oppressive society, where books are forbidden, Guy Montag (Oskar Werner) is a fireman. The mission of firemen in this society with fireproof houses is to burn books at 451o F, the temperature of combustion of paper.

Plot:

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government’s motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQ-yGCyjyM

A film by François Truffaut also known as “The 400 Blows”. Intensely touching story of a misunderstood young adolescent who left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. The film was beautifully shot in France with a great soundtrack!

Plot:

A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child’s eye.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCD1IBzzC0