The famous saga by François Truffaut with Jean-Pierre Léaud!
5 films brought together for the first time in a restored, unreleased 4K version
"Ideally, a good Doinel scene is a scene that should amuse some people and make others a little sad..."
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
Released in 1959, The 400 Blows marks both the birth of François Truffaut the director and that of his fictional double, Antoine Doinel. Through this character, who finds in Jean-Pierre Léaud an ideal interpreter, the filmmaker tells the story of life, love, and the worries of everyday life, in an intimate saga as funny as it is tender, which he will film over twenty years. Made up of four feature films and a medium-length film, "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel" are among the greatest treasures of world cinema. The 400 Blows , Antoine and Colette , Stolen Kisses , Domicile conjugal and L'Amour en fuite are presented for the first time in 4 UHD Blu-ray ™ and 4 Blu-ray™ Box Sets in their unpublished 4K restoration!
Available in limited 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Collector's Box Sets
Hard case containing 4 slim digipacks
New Unreleased 4K Restored Masters
A visual created exclusively by artist Tom Haugomat .
Each film also benefits from new artwork.
DISC 1
THE MOVIE
THE 400 HUNDRED BLOWS (1959 – 100 mins)
SHORT FILM
" LES MISTONS" (1957 – B&W – 19 min – HD restoration)
In the South of France, a gang of jealous kids (the mistons) make life impossible for a couple in love, Bernadette and Gérard.
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY CLAUDE DE GIVRAY (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON THE FILM) AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT)
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (2 mins)
SUPPLEMENTS
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY ROBERT LACHENAY (CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT) AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT)
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (4 mins)
. FILMMAKERS OF OUR TIME: FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT OR THE CRITICAL SPIRIT (5 mins – HD)
Director: Jean-Pierre Chartier • Co-authors: Janine Bazin & André Labarthe - © 1965 INA
François Truffaut remembers the instructions given to Jean-Pierre Léaud for the filming of a certain scene and cites the influence of Alfred Hitchcock for the editing of another.
. SUNDAY GUEST: FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT (2 mins)
Directed by: Jean Brard & Raoul Sangla • Co-authors: Pierre Dumayet & Éliane Victor - © 1969 INA
François Truffaut talks about his first film and his hero Antoine Doinel, who draws inspiration both from his own story and from the personality of his actor.
. THE ACTORS' TESTS (7 mins)
. ORIGINAL TRAILER
DISC 2
THE MOVIES
ANTOINE AND COLETTE (1962 – 30 mins) / STOLEN KISSES (1968 – 92 mins)
MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM
" ANTOINE AND COLETTE" (1962 – B&W – 31 min – 4K restoration)
Antoine Doinel is seventeen years old. He lives in Clichy and works in a record manufacturing plant. During a concert by the Jeunesses Musicales de France, he falls under the spell of Colette.
. AUDIODESCRIPTION . SUBTITLES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY MARIE-FRANCE PISIER AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT)
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (2 mins)
SUPPLEMENTS
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY CLAUDE JADE, CLAUDE DE GIVRAY (CO-SCRIPT WRITER OF THE FILM) AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT )
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (4 mins)
. THE CAROUSEL OF IMAGES (8 mins – HD) - © 1968 SONUMA
Journalist Sélim Sasson talks with François Truffaut about the Estates General of French Cinema and Stolen Kisses .
. FILMMAKERS OF OUR TIME: TEN YEARS, TEN FILMS (9 mins)
Director: Jean-Pierre Chartier • Co-authors: Janine Bazin & André Labarthe - © 1970 INA
The filmmaker evokes his hero's professional and romantic apprenticeship.
. FILMMAKERS OF OUR TIME: RUSHES (8 mins)
Director: Jean-Pierre Chartier • Co-authors: Jean-Pierre Chartier, Janine Bazin & André Labarthe - © 1970 INA
François Truffaut talks about the creation of Stolen Kisses , the writing and the choice of scenes.
. FR3 AUVERGNE TELEVISION NEWS (3 mins)
Journalism: Olivier Jacquemart - © 1975 INA
Interviewed on the set of Pocket Money , François Truffaut looks back on his film Stolen Kisses .
. SUPPORT SPOT FOR HENRI LANGLOIS (1 min)
. ORIGINAL TRAILER
DISC 3
THE MOVIE
MARRIAGE HOME (1970 – 98 mins)
SUPPLEMENTS
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY CLAUDE JADE, CLAUDE DE GIVRAY (CO-SCRIPT WRITER OF THE FILM) AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT )
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (4 mins)
. FILMMAKERS OF OUR TIME: TEN YEARS, TEN FILMS (5 mins)
Director: Jean-Pierre Chartier • Co-authors: Janine Bazin & André Labarthe - © 1970 INA
François Truffaut and his co-writer Bernard Revon are preparing the writing and filming of Domicile conjugal .
. VARIANCES (6 min)
Production: Michel Parmart • Journalism: Anne Revel - © 1970 INA
François Truffaut insists on the importance of his personal memories which feed his screenplays.
. MIDI MAGAZINE (4 mins)
Director: François Chatel • Co-author: Georges Folgoas - © 1970 INA
François Truffaut and actress Claude Jade are interviewed on the set of Domicile conjugal .
. FIRST MAGAZINE (10 min) - © 1970 VRT TV-ARCHIVES
François Truffaut reviews the evolution of the character of Antoine Doinel for Flemish television.
. BIENNIAL RADIO AND TV SHOW (3 mins)
Directed by: Jean-Max Venuti - © 1970 INA
Claude Jade talks about his character and the complementarity of the couple formed by Antoine and Christine Doinel.
. NORTH NEWS (4 mins)
Journalism: François Lionet - © 1970 INA
On the occasion of the release of Domicile conjugal , François Truffaut looks back at the films that make up the Antoine Doinel cycle.
. NEWS BULLETIN (11 mins – HD) - © 1970 SONUMA
In Brussels, François Truffaut talks about writing and cinema, and wonders whether the video cassette will change the cultural practices of spectators.
. "WORKING WITH FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT : CLAUDE DE GIVRAY AND BERNARD REVON, CO-SCRIPTWRITERS" (45 mins)
In this interview, never before seen in France, Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon, co-writers with François Truffaut of Stolen Kisses and Domicile conjugal , reveal with humor and precision the way in which Truffaut develops the ideas in his screenplays and the way in which he uses them.
. ORIGINAL TRAILER
DISC 4
THE MOVIE
LOVE ON THE RUN (1979 – 95 min)
SUPPLEMENTS
. AUDIO COMMENTARY BY MARIE-FRANCE PISIER AND SERGE TOUBIANA (BIOGRAPHER OF FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT)
. FILM PRESENTATION BY SERGE TOUBIANA (4 mins)
. CINÉ-REGARDS: THE FILM OF THE WEEK (4 mins)
Directed by: Jean Vilain - © 1979 INA
Actress Marie Dubois presents the film of the week, L'Amour en fuite by François Truffaut, for the show Ciné-regards . She emphasizes its remarkable editing, talks about the very promising beginnings of the television host Dorothée and praises the always tender gaze that François Truffaut has on the character of Antoine Doinel.
. PARTY ROOM: CINEMA (4 mins)
Director: Frédéric Carey • Co-author: Gilbert Kahn - © 1979 INA
In this interview with the three main female actors of Love on the Run , Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade and Dorothée present their respective roles in the saga and then tell how François Truffaut discovered each of them.
. CINEMA SPECIAL (21 mins) - © 1979 RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Interviewed as part of the Swiss program Spécial Cinéma , co-writer and assistant director Suzanne Schiffman looks back on the series "Antoine Doinel" which punctuates François Truffaut's filmography, actress and co-writer Marie-France Pisier talks about her desire to build strong female characters opposite Doinel, while actor Jean-Pierre Léaud addresses the strange feeling of feeling oneself growing old in front of the camera, and his "emotional" closeness to François Truffaut.
. ORIGINAL TRAILER
. TRAILER OF THE SAGA "THE ADVENTURES OF ANTOINE DOINEL" (HD)
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4 UHD BD • ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION MASTERS • 2160/24p • HEVC ENCODING
French version DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 / Audio description Dolby Digital 2.0
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Subtitles • 2.35 and 1.66 formats respected • Black & White and Color • Total Length of Films: 416 mins
4 BD • HIGH DEFINITION MASTERS • 1080/24p • AVC ENCODING
French version DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 / Audio description Dolby Digital 2.0
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Subtitles • 2.35 and 1.66 formats respected • Black & White and Color • Total Length of Films: 416 mins
Released on December 1, 2021
