Jean-Pierre Léaud

This short film is the first segment of five in the multinational feature Love at Twenty (1962), all five segments on the theme of first adult love. After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of society working for Philips Records, which allows him to indulge in his love of music. At the Youth Concerts, he has noticed the same young woman at several performances, she who he would like to get to know. She is Colette, the two who do begin to date. Colette treats Antoine like a buddy, while Antoine has fallen in love with her. His pursuit of getting Colette to be his exclusive girlfriend is helped on the surface in the fact that Colette's parents like him and encourage their dating. He uses grand romantic gestures to try and prove his love. Will Colette ultimately fall under Antoine's romanticism?—Huggo

Antoine and Colette

Antoine and Colette (1962)

Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab, unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. His parents bicker constantly and he knows his mother is having an affair. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and theft. His parents are at their wits' end, and after he's stopped by the police, they decide the best thing would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He's sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn't do much better. He does manage to escape however.—garykmcd

The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows (1959)

Antoine and Christine Doinel are still in the honeymoon phase of their young marriage, there a playfulness in their interactions with each other as they live a somewhat bohemian life, he working for a florist in their neighborhood with his main job, which he carries out in their apartment building's courtyard, dying white flowers vivid colors, she a concert violinist and violin teacher. They also have cordial relations with idiosyncratic neighbors and other neighborhood regulars. Their union is not outwardly obvious in the differences in their background, Antoine who uses writing as a means to deal emotionally with what was his neglected childhood in a broken home, while Christine's family is bourgeois. When Christine becomes pregnant, Antoine goes on a search for a higher paying and more stable job, he, in part out of a misunderstanding, able to get one working for an American hydraulics company. It is through that job that Antoine meets and begins an affair with Kyoko, the daughter of a Japanese client. The affair may jeopardize the life he has with Christine - while it is arguably more a fling for Antoine in dealing with these changes, it is love for Kyoko.—Huggo

Bed & Board

Bed & Board (1970)

The third in a series of films (following The 400 Blows and the short Antoine and Collette) featuring writer-directed François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Leaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses (1968)

Continues the saga of rascally Parisian Antoine Doinel, now in his thirties working as a proofreader at a printers. This phase of his story begins on the day of the finalization of his amicable divorce from violin teacher Christine - she to retain custody of their adolescent son Alphonse, Antoine with full visitation rights - they the first couple to do so under the new law of no fault divorce. This act follows three years since their first separation, which had been interspersed to now with getting back together, and ultimately coming to the realization that they could no longer live together despite probably still loving each other to some extent. Antoine had long moved on in dating Sabine, a record store clerk. He has not told her that their meeting was not by chance, although the specific incident of he becoming aware of her was purely by chance, he viewing that incident somewhat as providence. Their relationship, however, is having its own problems as Sabine feels he isn't as committed as she would like, he still guarding much of himself from her. In those troubles with Sabine and the divorce from Christine, Antoine can't help but reflect on the entire course of his love life, his first largely autobiographical novel, which was published, containing much of that reflection and the process which he used, somewhat unsuccessfully, as self-therapy. Regardless, he is contemplating writing about his and Sabine's relationship. His current thoughts are punctuated in he running into arguably who was his first love, Colette, a lawyer who is currently going through her own professional and personal issues, the latter with regard to her relationship with bookstore owner Xavier.—Huggo

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Antoine and Colette

1962

Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Romance

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Duration: 32 min

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Language: fr

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Jean-Pierre Léaud as -Antoine Doinel

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