Antoine and Colette

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Antoine and Colette
Directed by	François Truffaut
Written by	François Truffaut
Starring	Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier Patrick Auffay
Release date(s)	July, 1962
Language	French
Preceded by	The 400 Blows
Followed by	Stolen Kisses
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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 Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He meets Colette, a high-school 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] Cast and roles

• Jean-Pierre Léaud - Antoine Doinel
• Marie-France Pisier - Colette
• Patrick Auffay - René
• Rosy Varte - Colette's mother
• François Darbon - Colette's father in law
• Jean-François Adam - Albert Tazzi
• Pierre Schaeffer - Himself

[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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