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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: Autobiographical Screenplays
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Autobiographical Screenplays Author:Francois Truffaut Subtitle: The 400 Blows / Love at Twenty / Stolen Kisses / Bed and Board — More than just a collection of screenplays, this book by Francois Truffaut, one of the most original motion picture directors of our era, not only reveals how he writes and makes his films, but intimates the subtle relationships that make his four best-known works... more » an integrated whole that uses his own experiences and sensibility as the material for his art.
These four films about adolescence, youth and first love range from the brutal realism of The 400 Blows to the subtle comedy of Stolen Kisses, each of them built around the one central character, Antoine Doinel, who grows from an embattled and rejected child, in the first and most famous of these films, to the puzzled, sympathetic and always hopeful young man of the later ones.
In this brilliantly edited and illustrated volume it is possible, for the first time, to realize the way in which these four films interconnect, and to understand that they form a cycle, a film novel, uniquely subtle, uniquely the work of the major auteur of the modern cinema.« less