Now I can understand why this movie got a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is the favorite movie of a many great film directors like Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) and Satyajit Ray (Honorary Academy Award Winner from Bengal, India). It is a 1959 French language movie directed by François Truffaut, one of the greats of the French New Wave Cinema. It is a simple story about simple things in life. The cinematography is done in such a way that you cannot imagine why such a particular long shot was made but is actually integral to highlight the artistic value of the movie. It went on to win the 1959 Cannes' Best Director Award. Antoine Doinel is a a 12 year old boy who is having a hard time adjusting to school where all his mates are up to mischief and he is the fall guy and is punished by his ferocious school master. At home, he goes home to an empty house where his father is forever busy at the racing track and his inaffectionate mother is apparently 'busy' with work....
It is all Mimesis