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Antoine & Colette
In Antoine and Colette, made right after Jules and Jim for the omnibus film Love at Twenty, Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Antoine Doinel is grown up enough to live on his own and become smitten with a coquettish young girl named Colette (Marie-France Pisier, discovered by Truffaut when he cast the role). This time, the inspiration was purely autobiographical. In the early 50s, Truffaut fell hard for a girl named Liliane Litvin – so hard that he moved into an apartment across the street from Liliane’s home with her parents. Truffaut competed for Liliane’s affection with his friends Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Gruault, all three of whom spiked their conversations with literary references in order to impress her. After numerous frustrations and a suicide attempt, Truffaut finally threw in the towel only when Liliane became pregnant by another man. A painful memory, transformed into art and rendered with the greatest comic delicacy. One of Truffaut’s most beautiful films.
* Antoine and Colette follows the screening of The 400 Blows.
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Director: François Truffaut
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France, 1959, 99 min.
François Truffaut’s first feature changed the way we look at movies by examining childhood in a way that no other filmmaker had ever done before.
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The 400 Blows
France, 1959, 99 min
