● In the late 1950s in Paris, France, the New Wave was a film movement that gained

popularity, pre war and post war period. It was intended to give directors full creative
control over their work, enabling them to adopt a more improvisational narrative style
than the strict narratives. A group of young and innovative filmmakers, who sought to
break from traditional movie conventions and explore new film techniques, characterized
this event.
● One of the main figures in connection with the French New Wave, Truffaut is considered
to have been one of its founders. In establishing the movement's aesthetics and themes,
he played an important role in the cinema “The 400 Blows’’. Several other New Wave
directors were profoundly influenced by Truffaut's innovative approach to stories and
filmmaking in this film, which consisted of a naturalistic style, the use of portable
cameras focused on everyday life for ordinary people.
● In the French New Wave, several actors and crew members who worked on "The 400
Blows" have gone on to be major figures. Jean Pierre Léaud, who played Antoine Doinel
in the film, continued to work with Truffaut and appeared in several films in the Antoine
Doinel series.
● Auteur theory, which advocated that a film's director was an essential creative force
behind its image. A number of French New Wave filmmakers, such as Truffau who
worked in ‘‘The 400 Blows’’, Jean Luc Godard, and Ric Rohmer, were considered
"auteurs" who had a unique artistic vision, and that theory became central to the French
New Wave movement.