It is a story about a child who, without attention, turns to a life of small crime and truancy.
Now, Trainspotting -star Ewan McGregor's daughter Clara has cited the 1959 film when the 400 blows as the film that led her through her 'rebellious' teenage years.
It follows the teenage player Antoine Doinel as he skips the school in Paris, runs away from his unfortunate house and steals his indifferent parents, a typewriter, is caught by the police and ends in the reform school.
Mrs. McGregor, 29, said the film gave her a 'rich perspective' about 'family dynamics' – and later inspired her to act, just like her famous father.
In an interview with Cultured Magazine, Mrs. McGregor was asked to name a film that brought her through an important moment into her life.
She said: 'The 400 strokes, directed by François Truffaut, comes up immediately in me. I looked at it for the first time when I was about eight.
'It not only gave me a rich perspective on youth, family dynamics and teenage uprising, but more generally on making films.
'Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance was brilliant. I not only remember that I was not only moved by his talent, but that I was inspired to pursue acting in the hope that [I could] One day be as good as he was.
Clara McGregor with her father Ewan in 2016 in New York, where she studied Cinema
Clara as a baby with her mother and a very young father
Scene from the 'Inspirational' film The 400 Blows
'In many ways this film helped me grow up and led me through my rebellious teenage years. I often visit it again. '
It is not clear how Mrs. McGregor Authority dated her teenage years, although she said earlier that choosing not to follow in her father's footsteps, there was an act of rebellion in his own way.
In an interview in 2018 she said: 'Everywhere in high school I really turned my back. I said I would be a photographer, I will stand behind the lens.
'At the age of 12 I moved to LA, which is all Hollywood, and the only thing I was asked is:' Are you going to do what your father does? “I was rebelling. '
Mrs. McGregor, whose mother the French production designer Eve Mavrakis, 58, is, grew up in London before moving to Los Angeles.
She graduated later in 2018 from New York University with a diploma in cinema studies.
Mrs. McGregor has three sisters: Jamyan, 23, Esther, 23 and 14-year-old Anouk. Their 53-year-old Scottish star father also has a three-year-old son, Laurie, with his second wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 40.
