🎬 Mentors by their absence.
In Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959), François Truffaut shows how a child is shaped not by guidance, but by what is missing. Parents, teachers, and institutions fail Antoine Doinel—yet that absence becomes the defining “mentor” of his life. A quiet, devastating lesson in influence without care.

Photo: Jean-Pierre Léaud with François Truffaut, Cannes Film Festival 1959.

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