François Truffaut-Antoine et Colette (1962)

The second film to feature Doinel, "Antoine and Collette" (1962) was originally made for the omnibus film Love at Twenty but has outlived its companion shorts. As romantic and gently ironic as The 400 Blows is harsh and haunting, this modest 20-minute lark finds a teenage Antoine pursuing the lovely, lithe 20-year-old Colette (Marie-France Pisier) like a lovesick puppy. The comic sweetness of this episode sets the tone for all future Doinel films, and Léaud, who matured into the poster boy for the French new wave, displays the lanky charm and self-effacing egotism that propelled him through some of the greatest films of the next two decades. (–Sean Axmaker - Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com)




The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. (amazon.com)




In another story of young love gone awry, "Antoine and Colette", a young man(Jean-Pierre Leaud) has fallen deeply for a girl he knows from school. She is friendly with him, but does not return the same deep affection he feels for her. He does everything imaginable to gain her attentions, including cozying up to her parents, and even taking an apartment across the street. This film, from 1962 is the second in the "Antoine Doniel" series. (amazon.com)










This Truffaut movie was published on Avax-pages by "rstgermain" on 11 Aug 2007 15:53
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