Bonjour mes amis! This week, the Crit Club is heading back to France, riding the first swells of that New Wave with François Truffaut’s 1959 The 400 Blows. Routinely lauded as one of the best films ever made, this small, active movie follows the adolescent discomfort of one young Antoine Doinel as he struggles to find a place in the trappings of school, his home, and society at large. Did we find it to be one of the best films? Did we long for a simpler time in the post-war Parisian school system? Were we shocked to find that gravitrons existed back then? Listen and find out!

And join us next week for a Wizard Pick™, where we’ll watch the 1981 Hong Kong action/horror film Dreadnaught!

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