FILM IN FOCUS: The 400 Blows
FILM IN FOCUS: The 400 Blows
In the final sequence of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959), an extraordinarily long tracking shot of Antoine on the run concludes with a celebrated freeze frame.
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