Shot before The 400 Blows but released two years after it, the sunny, exuberant Les Mistons became inspiration and source for countless other tales of mischievous boys obsessed  with an older woman (in this case, nouvelle vague icon Bernadette Lafont, also in this season’s Les Godelureaux). The boys’ collective crush on Lafont extends through a summer, as they warily watch her love affair with a young man, and then attempt to sabotage it with a brattish joke.