2017
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2 days ago · New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud finds himself at the center of the film’s titular Freudian sexual dilemma, as well as a powerful discourse on the gender politics of the sexual revolution, in Jean Eustache ‘s autobiographical tale of an idle, verbose young man and his two lovers — the woman he lives with (Bernadette Lafont), and the one ...
2 days ago · This is a film interested in exploring the traps that exist in boyhood, and for Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud), they are numerous. He’s not a bad kid, just a bit of a troublemaker, and this causes problems at school and at home. There’s a contrast between how his parents seem trapped in their domestic life versus how Antoine does.
2 days ago · Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance as Antoine adds a layer of authenticity, bringing the emotional depth of the character to the forefront. The film's title, "Les Quatre Cents Coups," refers to the idiom for raising hell, reflective of Antoine's turbulent journey.
Jun 22, 2024 · The story follows a young man in his early twenties named Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who has just gotten out of his required tenure in the French army. He finds himself having difficulty adjusting once more to civilian life, after all, the military was all that he really knew for the last few years of his life.
Jul 7, 2024 · Set in Narbonne, the town in the South of France where Eustache came of age, Santa Claus has Blue Eyes follows the exploits of Daniel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a twenty-something whose central pursuit in life is to purchase a duffle coat before Christmas.
Jul 7, 2024 · In the very last sequence of La maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore, 1973) – the first and more widely seen of the two full-length fiction films Jean Eustache directed – it manifests in Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) sliding to the floor after proposing to his lover Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), who he has just learned is pregnant ...
2 days ago · Cast and crew members intertwine in all sorts of ways as a British actress (Jacqueline Bisset) who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown, aging French star Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), Italian diva Séverine (Valentina Cortese), and young French actor Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) spend a lot of time doing everything except making a film, upsetting the director, played by Truffaut himself.
