In the French New Wave Movement, Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS is a landmark and most important in the emergence of auteur filmmaking. With the help of this autobiographical concept, Truffaut has explored his own childhood that how the film director is also the film author. Among many film historians, French New Wave movement remains changing a collection of names, dates and films because of every film historian had its own definition of movement. In this aspect, many critics launched a theory called as the auteur theory which stated the notion that a director of the film is also the author of the film. In doing so, Cahiers du cinema authors realized that their own cinemas had bogged down by the ancient ways, which was not awareness to the film …show more content…
It was for the first time in a long term association with performer and director; they reverted to the character in the short film Antoine and Collette (1962) and three more features: Stolen kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970). By 1958 and in the following year, many of the critics had turned into filmmakers. Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (1958) and Les Cousins (1959), Louis Malle's The Lovers (1958), and Godard's Breathless (1960) presented the first indication that revealed the fact of the arrival of the French film industry. The recent upsurge in the movies would come to show the separating movement between traditional and new camera work.
The films which come later have their qualities and Stolen Kisses is one of Truffaut's finest movies. However, The 400 Blows is in a class by itself, with all its simplicity and feeling. It was the first story of Truffaut, and also one of the establishing movies of the French New Wave. We can see that this film was the mouthpiece of Truffaut's heart. This movie is dedicated to Andre Bazin, the significant French film criticizer who helped Truffaut at the time when he was at the stage of life as a filmmaker and life in