Reviews

After a long time trying to track the DVD down, I got what I deserved... a thrilling, dark and occasionally disturbing piece of cinema. This film focuses on the very darkest of human emotion and is under-seen and underrated. see this film if possible :) contact me if you have any questions :) if you are here, then you are in a good place to start. if you are from the us you can see this online, otherwise you have to pay £50 in the United Kingdom. I'm hoping to share this wonderful film, so help me make this a classic by spreading the word. I know this is a well sought after movie.

Will

This has to be one of the best coming of age stories ever made, and when I saw this film, I didn't expect to be as impressed or as emotionally drawn in as this 1959 classic did to me! Starting off with our protagonist Antoine Doinel misbehaving in class and then expanding the story out into a truly remarkable film about what is essentially child abuse "although I imagine the culture in 1959 France, and 2013 Britain are two whole different things... but what makes this film truly remarkable is its young star. Once you set eyes upon his daring, yet cheeky behaviour, you begin to see why he has an apathy for life that no child in my personal opinion should have. What is going on here is the whole "Nurse Ratchet" scenario really brought to form by 1976 by "one flew over the cuckoos nest", the format is very similar, with everything the adults doing to help the child just pushing him further and further from social obedience. The shots of him seeing his hometown drive out of view at the end had me in complete hysterical sobbing mode, and with good reason... The cinematography is just as alive today as if it were made today in black and white, yet, the same thing can't be said for the setting... Its absolutely amazing to see what Paris looked like in 1959, its beautiful and (even in b&w, which people should stop complaining about... and subtitles) this serves up as one of the best international movies of its time. The acting is very rarely wooden and over the top, and never from our main character, I can quite safely say that this film needs to be broadcast more. I would pay a lot of money to see it on the big screen... I just cannot bring myself to criticise this fantastic gem of cinema! Hello out there to my fellow geeky film lovers... its up to us to keep classics like this in the limelight... <3