Antoine and Colette
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| Directed by | François Truffaut |
| Written by | François Truffaut |
| Starring | Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier Patrick Auffay |
| Release date(s) | July, 1962 |
| Language | French |
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Antoine and Colette (French: Antoine et Colette) is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The film was made for the 1962 anthology collection, Love at Twenty, which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.
Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, The 400 Blows. Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influential outpouring of work from young French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer.
Antoine and Colette catches up with Antoine Doinel as a solitary 17-year-old who works at a classical record store to support himself. He meets Colette, a university student, at a concert and falls in love for the first time. The film traces his awkward courtship of the icy Colette, who never reciprocates. Léaud gives a mature, knowing performance, establishing Antoine as a universal figure, an Everyman — or in this case, an Everyboy-man — whose joys and pains can be felt by everyone. Truffaut continues the soft, moving style he employed in Les Quatre Cents Coups to great effect, painting a poetic portrait of young, unrequited love. Doinel's adventures follow with Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run.
[edit] External links
- Antoine and Colette at the Internet Movie Database
- Some Criticism on Truffaut
- Criterion Collection essay by Kent Jones
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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel by François Truffaut |
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The 400 Blows | Antoine and Colette | Stolen Kisses | Bed and Board | Love on the Run |
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| 1950s | Une Visite • Les Mistons • Une Histoire d'eau • The 400 Blows |
| 1960s | Shoot the Piano Player • Jules and Jim • Antoine and Colette • The Soft Skin • Fahrenheit 451 • The Bride Wore Black • Stolen Kisses • Mississippi Mermaid |
| 1970s | The Wild Child • Bed and Board • Two English Girls • Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me • Day for Night • The Story of Adele H. • Small Change • The Man Who Loved Women • The Green Room • Love on the Run |
| 1980s | The Last Metro • The Woman Next Door • Confidentially Yours |
| Screenplay only | Breathless • The Little Thief • Belle Époque (miniseries) |
