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[[File:400blows063_3275.jpg|frame|Yep. It's gonna be one of [[Le Film Artistique|those.]]]]
 
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel are five films directed by Francois Truffaut which star the same character, the [[Wide -Eyed Idealist|romantic but perpetually naive]] Antoine Doinel, from adolescence to his mid-thirties.
 
The 400 Blows, [[True Art Is Angsty|by far the most famous film in the series,]] portrays Antoine Doinel as twelve-year-old boy. It's a cruel, melancholy portrait of the private sorrows of adolescence and one of the most deeply personal films ever made. The final scene, after his escape from a juvenile work camp, features one of the most famous shots in the history of French cinema: Antoine, on a desolate beach, finally free, and seeing the ocean for the very first time, but in profound spiritual pain and [[Pyrrhic Victory|completely and utterly alone.]]
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* '''The 400 Blows:''' This film introduces Antoine, a Parisian bastard child with a cold, adulterous mother and an argumentative stepfather. The film follows him as, after a series of injustices, he becomes a juvenille deliquent and his family abandons him. The title comes from the French slang term "faire les quatre cents coups" which means something like "raising hell" or "living a wild life." Considerably [[Darker and Edgier]] than the next four films. It snagged Truffaut the Best Director award at Cannes at the tender age of 27.
 
* '''Antoine and Colette:''' A short film Truffaut made for the Love at Twenty collection, which is about ... [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|well.]] This marks the saga's turn from drama to light romantic comedy.
 
* '''Stolen Kisses:''' Antoine has just been discharged from the army for "instability of personality" and immediately sets to chasing after his sweetheart, Christine Darbon. Now that he's out of the army, however, he's got to get a job, and decides to become the world's worst private eye.
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* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Christine and Liliane.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Kyoko. Justified since this is only because we see her through Antoine's eyes, and Antoine wants to see her as an [[Unfortunate Implications|exotic ideal.]] He gets tired of her once he realizes she's an actual person.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Too many to count, especially in Love on the Run. Mostly to Truffaut's other films and to actors that he worked with.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: One of these shows up kind of inexplicably in Stolen Kisses. Often, Antoine when the [[Dogged Nice Guy]] thing gets a little out of hand.
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: And something of a [[Man Child]]. Kind of odd considering that Antoine wasn't sheltered from much - he was sent off to reform school, his parents disowned him, and he was in the army. Still, Antoine's [[Moe]] appeal is the key to the series' charm: it's sort of hard to dislike him for messing up so consistently and chasing after everything in a skirt, since he's just too innocent to realize that he's doing anything wrong.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Antoine's [[Shallow Love Interest]] in Domicile Conjugal
 
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