A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
Direction
Leuthy weaves 400 Hours into 63 minutes.
Editing
Archival footage dances with contemporary interviews.
Production
Rare access to Léaud's guarded private life.
Director
Cyril Leuthy
Noémie Lvovsky
Self - Actress
Olivier Assayas
Self - Filmmaker
Macha Méril
Self - Actress
Lucas Belvaux
Self - Filmmaker
Chantal Goya
Self - Actress
Nathalie Baye
Self - Actress
Françoise Lebrun
Self - Actress
Josiane Balasko
Self - Actress
Tsai Ming-liang
Self - Filmmaker
Nobuhiro Suwa
Self - Filmmaker
Michel Fau
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Baptiste Le Vaillant
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Léaud reportedly kept every costume from his films, turning his home into a museum of his own body.
Godard once called him 'a bad actor' to provoke him—Léaud's furious response became the energy of La Chinoise.
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