In Truffaut's case, the man who saved him was the film critic Andre Bazin, who also introduced him to the movies. It bears the familiar autobiographical imprint of Truffaut's own experience - the experience of a young juvenile delinquent who was saved from a life of crime by a man who believed in him, and became instead a great film director. ![]() Now comes this last story, produced by Claude Berri (who was given the story by Truffaut on his deathbed) and directed by Claude Miller. In fact, Truffaut originally intended "The 400 Blows" to be about both Antoine and Janine, and cut out the girl only because he felt there was more story than he could tell. ![]() It was the same situation with Antoine, the famous young hero of Francois Truffaut's great 1959 film " The 400 Blows," and there is a poetic justice in the fact that the story of "The Little Thief" was the last one written by Truffaut before he died in 1984. Stealing is her way of telling people she doesn't care what they think of her.Īnd yet we do not sense that this is a bad girl, only an unhappy one who needs someone to love her and something useful to do, and she will be healed. We sense a strong current of anger in the girl, and we sense she expresses her anger in crime.
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