🎥 Anti Social Hours & Cult Movie Mondays present
🇫🇷 Bastille Day - Triple French New Wave Special
The 400 Blows + Bande à part + Pierrot le Fou
A journey through the rebellious heart of La Nouvelle Vague
🗓 Monday, July 14
⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 First Film: 6PM
📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Three films that tore apart the screen and rebuilt it in their image.
Two directors who reshaped cinema from the ground up.
Three masterpieces that redefined what film could be — raw, personal, and alive.
🎬 The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
Screening at 6:00PM
A film that felt like a confession and a revolution in the same breath.
Truffaut’s debut feature didn’t just signal the start of the French New Wave — it turned cinema into autobiography. Shot on the streets of Paris with handheld cameras, natural light, and non-professional actors, it broke away from studio polish and moral formulas.
At the centre is Antoine Doinel, a boy navigating neglect, misunderstanding, and the juvenile justice system. Truffaut channelled his own troubled youth into every frame, creating a deeply emotional and humane portrait of adolescence that remains one of the most honest depictions of growing up ever put on screen.
The film’s impact was seismic. It inspired the birth of “auteur theory,” showing that directors could be personal, poetic, and political all at once. It paved the way for coming-of-age films from Kes to Boyhood — and every sensitive misfit character since.
💬 “It was like seeing your own youth laid bare.” – Martin Scorsese
📽 IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198
🎬 Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
Screening at 7:50PM
A film that pretends to be a caper but ends up being a love letter to film itself.
With Bande à part, Godard took pulp material — a heist, a trio of outsiders, a ticking plan — and unravelled it. He used jump cuts, direct address, improvisation, and deadpan narration to expose the artifice of film, but never at the cost of joy.
It gave us the most iconic dance scene in cinema history. It paused for “the world’s record for running through the Louvre.” And it became a symbol of what cinema could be: free, funny, stylish, tragic.
The film directly influenced Quentin Tarantino, who named his production company A Band Apart after it. It also paved the way for the ironic genre-mashing of Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, and Wong Kar-wai.
It taught filmmakers that it’s okay to love movies and still tear them down — sometimes in the same breath.
💬 “It’s so effortlessly cool it hurts.” – Quentin Tarantino
📽 IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0057869
🎬 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Screening at 9:40PM
A kaleidoscope of chaos, colour, love, and despair — cinema as rebellion.
If Bande à part was Godard being playful, Pierrot le Fou is him in full firebrand mode. It follows Ferdinand and Marianne — lovers, fugitives, terrorists, dreamers — as they flee bourgeois Paris for the coast. Along the way, the film lurches between musical numbers, Marxist commentary, comic book violence, and philosophical digressions.
It’s fragmented, lyrical, pop-art and postmodern — but always alive. This is cinema grappling with modern life, consumerism, identity, politics, and the impossibility of true love. It explodes with ideas in every frame.
It directly influenced filmmakers like Leos Carax, Harmony Korine, Gregg Araki, and David Lynch. And its style — saturated colours, wild cuts, direct-to-camera monologues — remains a touchpoint for music videos, fashion films, and pop culture visual language to this day.
💬 “A film so alive it feels like it’s editing itself while you watch it.” – Jean-Pierre Gorin
📽 IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0059592
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn
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