The release of Franois Truffauts The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows not only introduced the world to Truffautit also unveiled his most indelible creation, Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Laud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements, from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. This box set presents Truffauts celebrated saga in its entirety: the feature films The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, and the short subject Antoine and Colette.

4K UHD BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restorations of all five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• Four 4K UHD discs of the films presented in Dolby Vision HDR and four Blu-rays with the films and special features
• New 4K restoration of Les mistons, Truffauts 1957 short film, with commentary by Claude de Givray, Truffauts then assistant director
• Two audio commentaries for The 400 Blows, one featuring film scholar Brian Stonehill and the other Truffauts lifelong friend Robert Lachenay
• Archival interviews with Truffaut and his collaborators, including actors Jean-Pierre Laud, Claude Jade, and Marie-France Pisier and cowriters de Givray and Bernard Revon
• Video essays by film historian Serge Toubiana for Stolen Kisses and Les mistons
• Introducing My Father, Franois Truffaut, a 2019 interview with Laura Truffaut by filmmaker Daniel Raim
• Trailers
• PLUS: Essays by Annette Insdorf, Kent Jones, Andrew Sarris, Noah Baumbach, and Chris Fujiwara, and a 1971 piece by Truffaut
  
  THE 400 BLOWS with ANTOINE AND COLETTE
  Franois Truffauts first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffauts cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Laud), The 400 Blows sensitively recreates the trials of Truffauts own difficult childhood. The film established Truffaut as a trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave. Also included is Truffauts Antoine and Colette, from the 1962 omnibus feature Love at Twenty.
  
  STOLEN KISSES
  Jean-Pierre Laud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually lovestruck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic, Stolen Kisses is Franois Truffauts timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.
  
  BED AND BOARD
  The fourth installment in Franois Truffauts chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board, finds our hapless hero once again in crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Laud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, Bed and Board is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
  
  LOVE ON THE RUN
  Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of Franois Truffauts saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Laud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. The newly single Doinel finds an object of his affections in Sabine, a record-store salesgirl whom he pursues with the fervid belief that without love, one is nothing. Along the way, he renews his acquaintance with previous loves and confronts his own chaotic past. In Love on the Run, Antoine Doinel is still in love, and because hes still in love, hes still alive.

• MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions : 1 x 1 x 1 inches; 1.76 Pounds
• Media Format : 4K, Subtitled
• Run time : 6 hours and 52 minutes
• Release date : July 15, 2025
• Actors : Franois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Laud
• Subtitles: : English
• Studio : The Criterion Collection
• Country of Origin : USA
• Number of discs : 8