Reel Time: Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)

When:
17 June, 2017 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
2017-06-17T11:00:00+01:00
2017-06-17T12:30:00+01:00
Where:
The Coach House Theatre
Cost:
£6.50 per film, £18 for all day or any 3 films Price includes 12% booking fee
Contact:
Malvern Theatres
01684 892277
Reel Time: Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) @ The Coach House Theatre

Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14 year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab and unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that’s been pushed into the kitchen. He knows his mother is having an affair and his parents bicker constantly. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and later stealing. His parents are at their wits end and after he’s stopped by the police, they decide the best thing to do would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He’s sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn’t do much better. He does manage to escape however………

Best Director – Cannes 1959, Best Foreign Language Film – NYFCCA 1959, Best Writing – OSCAR nominee 1960

Cert: PG

Running time: 119

REEL TIME at the COACH HOUSE

A weekend of films celebrating the multi award winning director, François Truffaut.

This weekend’s programme comprises three classic black and white films interleaved with three notable colour ones. We begin with Truffaut’s first full-length feature film, Les Quatre Cents Coups (B&W) and include his last, Vivement Dimanche , where he reverted to black and white in his tribute to Alfred Hitchcock.  Truffaut was an expert on Hitchcock and a great admirer of his work. He died of a brain tumour at 52, hardly a year after completing Vivement Dimanche.