Love on the Run (1979)

Movie"Antoine Doinel. He's got four ladies ... Nine lives ... and Plenty of alibis!"
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PG 1 hr 33 minApr 6th, 1979Comedy, Drama, RomanceThe Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection PosterPart of The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.
StarringJean-Pierre LéaudMarie-France PisierClaude Jade
DirectorFrançois Truffaut

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:April 6th, 1979 - Buy Tickets
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films du Carrosse
Movie Tags:
paris, france1970sadulterycemeterybecoming an adultbookshopprinterprint shop

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.