Antoine and Colette

Movie"Will Colette ultimately fall for Antoine's romanticism?"
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72
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NR 30 minDrama, Romance, ComedyThe Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection PosterPart of The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
StarringJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierRosy Varte
DirectorFrançois Truffaut
WriterFrançois Truffaut

Movie Details

Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films du Carrosse
Movie Tags:
short filmconcertparent child relationshipparis, franceadolescencelovesicknessindividual

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection

The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows 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.