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The Mischief Makers is a french film of genre Comedy directed by François Truffaut with Gérard Blain

The Mischief Makers (1958)

The Mischief Makers
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Length 18minutes
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OriginFrance
Genres Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating69% 3.4948753.4948753.4948753.4948753.494875

Les Mistons (The Mischief Makers) is a short film directed by François Truffaut in 1957. It was his second film after Une Visite in 1955 but it is considered his "first short film of any real consequence". Truffaut simply called it "my first real film".Moreover it was Bernadette Lafont's film debut. She was at that time Gérard Blain's wife. The film demonstrates already some examples for Truffaut's "trademark tracking shots" and would "help define his style" as well as "set Truffaut on a path for his career". Truffaut's narrative stresses the details of life, hereby establishing one of the trades of the French New Wave. Thus he also became a predecessor of French film directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie). It has been stated that the formation of the French New Wave could be "tracked through two short films": Jean-Luc Godard's "All the Boys Are Called Patrick" and Truffaut's "Les Mistons". In 2013 the Museum of Modern Art in New York screened this film together with Truffaut's The 400 Blows.

Synopsis

The story takes place in provincial France, where a group of young boys ("mistons" roughly translates "brats") are infatuated with a beautiful young woman. Jealous of her passionate affair, they conspire to make mischief for the woman and her boyfriend.

Actors

Gérard Blain

(Gérard)Bernadette Lafont

(Bernadette Jouve)Michel François

(Narrator (voice))Jean-Claude Brialy

(The man in the film)
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