Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The 400 Blows (1959) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay, Robert Beauvais DIRECTOR: François Truffaut CINEMATOGRAPHY: Henri Decaë MUSIC: Jean Constantin PRODUCTION: Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for The 400 Blows (1959). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

Franchise: The 400 Blows is part of the The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection.

Truffaut made four other films with Léaud depicting Antoine at later stages of his life: Antoine and Colette (which was Truffaut's contribution to the 1962 anthology Love at Twenty), Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run.

Filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, Steven Spielberg, Jean Cocteau, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Linklater, Tsai Ming Liang, Woody Allen, Richard Lester, P C Sreeram, Norman Jewison, Wes Anderson and Nicolas Cage have cited The 400 Blows as one of their favorite movies. With Kurosawa calling it "one of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen".

Martin Scorsese included it on a list of "39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker."

The film was ranked #29 in Empire magazine's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. In 2018, the film was voted the eighth greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.

The festival poster for the 71st Venice International Film Festival paid tribute to the film as it featured the character of Antoine Doinel portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud.

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Filming & Locations

Most of The 400 Blows was filmed in Paris: * Avenue Frochot, Paris 9th * Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, Paris 7th * Montmartre, Paris 18th * Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, Paris 16th * Pigalle, Paris 9th * Rue Fontaine * Sacré Cœur, Paris 18th The exception was for scenes filmed at the reform school, which were filmed in Honfleur, a small coastal town in the northern French province of Normandy. The final beach scene was filmed in Villers-sur-Mer, a few miles to the southwest.

[Filming locations] Most of The 400 Blows was filmed in Paris: * Avenue Frochot, Paris 9th * Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, Paris 7th * Montmartre, Paris 18th * Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, Paris 16th * Pigalle, Paris 9th * Rue Fontaine * Sacré Cœur, Paris 18th The exception was for scenes filmed at the reform school, which were filmed in Honfleur, a small coastal town in the northern French province of Normandy. The final beach scene was filmed in Villers-sur-Mer, a few miles to the southwest.