"...it informs everything we know today about watching movies."

great camera work to reflect the life of this troubled kid... the final run and reaching the sea is amazing

Maybe I'm a bad film buff, but I just found this movie boring. The long run at the end just went on forever.

Touching, well-told story that unfortunately holds no appeal to me. Doinel is an extremely well-drawn character, but, to me, the movie is too understated and ultimately shallow for its "masterpiece" reputation.

I know it's blasphemy to say this, but I truly do think this is criminally overrated. I never did understand the significance of cinema verite, considering the Italian neorealists did virtually the same thing, only a decade before.

Beautiful vanguardist film. The last scene unfolds all the repressed feelings you create through the rest of the movie, and it's quite a pleasant feeling.

Chalk this up there as one of the greatest first films for a director of all time.

Pretty decent all around, but way, way overrated, the movie's central concern is with excusing young Antoine's petty crimes because society failed him and his mother doesn't love him. This may be autobiographical but it relies more heavily on thematic convention than on personal integrity. I definitely prefer Ken Loach's similarly themed Kes, released ten years later, a film that's realistic and devoid of cliche.

Interesting to hear that this was inspired by a Sesame St Monsterpiece Theatre sketch. It could've reached poignancy if it was more poignant.

I was really surprised with this movie. This movie is hard for me to review. It was great. The story and characters were really interesting. The direction and photography were great. The acting was really good, and could have screwed everything up. There are a few scenes that the main actor nailed that could have ruined the entire film.

The film that defines "coming of age". For one thing it failed to impress me as much as I hoped for. But nevertheless it's solid, well filmed drama.

a good, but over-rated movie that is scripted and acted well. if the entire movie was shot like the scene where he finally gets taken away this would be much better. the majority of the camera work is satisfactory, but not great. the acting was fairly decent, actually a couple notches above decent--and same goes for the music. with a more tightly written script, and some more daring, but calculated camerawork it would have turned out much more enjoyable.

François Truffaut's chronicle about the coming of age of Antoine Doinel is an enjoyable one. I've never got around to watching the sequels but they're supposed to be good as well, I believe.

This is my favorite film of all time.

The only reason this film should be remembered is for being the catalyst for many, many, many coming-of-age movies to come [Louis Malle being a filmmaker who brings something more intimate to me for this subgenre] and also the beginning of Truffaut films eclipsing a much greater artist of the French New Wave - Alain Resnais. I could have spent this review praising what I enjoyed about this film, but I'd rather name-drop something that matters to me.