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| Beautiful, romantic old poster for François Truffaut's Baisers Volés |
QUICK REVIEW:
Baisers Volés is French master director François Truffaut's (Jules et Jim (1962)) third film, (the first 2 being The 400 Blows (1959) and the short Antoine et Colette (1962)), about his alter ego character Antoine Doinel, portrayed in all the films by Jean-Pierre Leaud (The Pornographer (2001)). The series includes two more films, Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).
Antoine Doinel has grown up on the outside, but is really still mostly an ungrateful brat. He has fallen in love with Christine, been dropped by the army and hired in Paris as a (worthless) private detective.
Stolen Kisses is neither particularly funny, warm nor touching. The humor is dry, the inventions amuse a few times; among other there is the man, who wants to know why nobody likes him.
Methodically, the film holds lots of the French nouvelle vague's favorites like jump cuts, rule-breaking of different kinds and all the world's inelegant, youthfully anarchistic grips.
Leaud in the lead is annoying, but on the bright side, the film does have some lovely women in it.
It is my least favorite Truffaut film, but it was popular at the time and still has its fans. I find it incredible that Baisers Volés was Oscar-nominated as Best Foreign Film in '69. It lost to Sergey Buncarchuk's Russian, 4-hour long War and Peace (1966).
Related review:
François Truffaut: The Bride Wore Black (1968) - Truffaut lets Moreau serve ice-cold revenge
Antoine et Colette (1962) - Unrequited love in Truffaut's Paris
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| An Italian (I think) poster for the film |
If interested in the film, here's its 4 minute trailer with subtitles in English
Budget: 0.35 mil. $
Box office: 1.5 mil. $
= Big hit
How do you rate the films about Antoine Doinel?
What is your favorite Truffaut film?
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