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Director
  
Francois Truffaut

Music director
  
Duration
  

7.2/10
IMDb


Genre
  
Short, Comedy

Screenplay
  
Francois Truffaut

Language
  
French

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Release date
  
6 November 1958Paris: 3 March 1961

Based on
  
Virginales by Maurice Pons

Writer
  
Maurice Pons (short story)

Cast
  
(Gérard), (Bernadette Jouve), (Narrator (voice))

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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 traits of the French New Wave. Thus he also became a predecessor of French film directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie). 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 City screened this film together with Truffaut's The 400 Blows.

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Plot

The story takes place in Provencal 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.

Production

The film was shot on location in Bernadette Lafont's hometown Nîmes in Southern France. It sports the town's Roman arena. It was shot on 35 mm film without live sound.

DVD release

In 1999 the film was released on a DVD which also contained Antoine and Colette. In 2007 Les Mistons was again released, this time as a part of a DVD collection. The extras included an introduction by film historian Serge Toubiana and an audio commentary by Truffauts assistant, Claude de Givray.

References

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