- What is it about The 400 Blows that makes it a New Wave film – look, story, production?
- What kind of film about childhood is it?
- How is this film about the cinema and cinephilia?
- What is the Paris that you see in this film?
- What does the final freeze frame mean to you?
- Can you relate to Antoine’s story in any way, given that this is a film that was made in 1959?
- What do you see as the importance of the French New Wave to world cinema.
- What films/film movements can you point to today that you might argue have been influenced by the New Wave?
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