Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
"The 400 Blows" marks the birth of legendary nouvelle vague character Antoine Doinel; his is the story of a 13-year-old wild child whose adventures were based on director Francois Truffaut's own adolescence.
A better translation for Francois Truffaut's epochal Cannes prizewinner The 400 Blows -- deservedly the second black-and-white Criterion movie to get the Blu-ray treatment -- would be Raising Hell or even Boys Gone Wild. This