From portraits of bloated, superannuated aristocracy and bumbling young manhood to blistering—and prototypical—portrayals of a particularly Gallic and flamboyant brand of “himbo”-ism, Nouvelle Vague Golden Boy Jean-Pierre Léaud has been one of cinema’s foremost interpreters of masculine folly, in all its often infuriating charms, since first taking cinemas by storm as François Truffaut’s adolescent alter ego in 1959’s The 400 Blows. In a selection of films highlighting Léaud’s talents as a live wire comic actor, we celebrate this eclectic and electric body of work, and a performer whose onscreen ingenuity knows no bounds.