Bed and Board (1971)

Movie"First Truffaut gave us The 400 Blows. Then Stolen Kisses... and now Bed and Board."
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PG 1 hr 37 minJan 21st, 1971Comedy, Romance, DramaThe Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection PosterPart of The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
StarringJean-Pierre LéaudClaude JadeDaniel Ceccaldi
DirectorFrançois Truffaut

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 21st, 1971 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:April 23rd, 2002 - Buy DVD
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Valoria Films, Fida Cinematografica, Les Films du Carrosse
Bed and Board on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
paris, france1970sinfidelityrelationshippregnancydivorceadulteryextramarital affairmarried couplebrothel

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.