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Antoine Doinel

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portrayal by Léaud

  • Day for Night
    In Jean-Pierre Léaud

    …to play the misunderstood adolescent Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut’s first feature-length film, Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959; The 400 Blows). Léaud appeared in four more Truffaut films which traced Doinel’s progress through physical maturity, courtship, marriage, fatherhood, and finally divorce: L’Amour à vingt ans (1962; Love at Twenty), Baisers…

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