Saturday, May 9 11:30am
Monday, May 11 7pm
Francois Truffaut ranks as perhaps the most overrated Nouvelle Vague director, but his semi-autobiographical debut feature will live forever. Fourteen-year-old Jean-Pierre Leaud’s extraordinary performance as an urban adolescent let down by his loser parents, school, and society and running out of good options channels an intensity and crushing innocence that established an acting career that continues to this day. – Lee Gardner
1959 Francois Truffaut 2.35:1 B&W DCP 99 min. In French with subtitles.
