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"Every time I cried, my father would imitate me on his fiddle, just to drive me nuts. One day I got fed up and I knocked him out."
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The 400 Blows is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote the film. Shot in the anamorphic format DyaliScope, the film stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. Written by Truffaut and Marcel Moussy, the fi
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"I have no socks left around these holes."
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"If she drops her pen, pick it up, but dont look at her legs. Or else it will be on your record."
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"Now, Doinel, go get some water and erase those insanities, or Ill make you lick the wall, my friend."
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"Guy Decomble - Petite Feuille, the French teacher"
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"Jean-Pierre Léaud - Antoine Doinel"
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"[to Antoine about another boy in the reformatory] He escaped a week ago, but they got him. Around here to escape is bad enough, but getting caught is worse."
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"Daniel Couturier - Betrand Mauricet"
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"Doinel, if your paper is first today, its because Ive decided to give the results beginning with the worst."
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"Im an unstable psychotic individual with perverted tendencies."
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"Claire Maurier - Gilberte Doinel - la mère dAntoine"
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