The final shot in Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" ... Antoine jogs onto the beach and to (beyond?) the edge of the sea/dry land. He turns, facing the camera now, looking into it, and the frame freezes then closes in, rapidly, on his captured expression which, held there on the screen, externalises everything it means to be ‘coming of age’ – and allows us to experience once again that time when childhood and adulthood violently meet.
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