Our series on films about the stage continues with the 1980 classic about a playhouse in occupied Paris, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu The directors of the French New Wave are rightly remembered as passionate cinephiles: several of them wrote film criticism and their movies frequently pay loving homage, directly and indirectly, to other movies. In François Truffaut's first feature, The 400 Blows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM on February 2, 2021