Stylistically, Truffaut’s films fault zoom shots, choppy editing, casual compositions, and bursts of quick humor or sudden violence (FH 410). The sensitive film The 400 (1959), is about a troubled boy who is misunderstood and thought by his parents to be a troublemaker. The famous ending for this film made the freeze frame technique a favored device for expressing unresolved situations. Truffaut goes on to win the directors prize for this film at Cannes (the same festival which banned him one year earlier), which gave the new wave great international prestige (FH 407). Truffaut had a reputation for on-screen sensitivity to children, women, and
Stylistically, Truffaut’s films fault zoom shots, choppy editing, casual compositions, and bursts of quick humor or sudden violence (FH 410). The sensitive film The 400 (1959), is about a troubled boy who is misunderstood and thought by his parents to be a troublemaker. The famous ending for this film made the freeze frame technique a favored device for expressing unresolved situations. Truffaut goes on to win the directors prize for this film at Cannes (the same festival which banned him one year earlier), which gave the new wave great international prestige (FH 407). Truffaut had a reputation for on-screen sensitivity to children, women, and