Directed by:
François TruffautCinematography:
Denys ClervalComposer:
Antoine DuhamelCast:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Harry-Max, André Falcon, Daniel Ceccaldi, Paul Pavel, Martine Brochard (more)VOD (1)
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François Truffaut's BAISÉS VOLÉS (STOLEN KISSES) is the third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series, which begins with young Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) running away from home in THE 400 BLOWS. Now the lovable everyman is a bushy tailed twentysomething who has just been released from military service. Anxious to jump back into civilian life, he reunites with his girlfriend, Christine (Claude Jade), and starts a job as a night watchman at a hotel. Some hilarious scenes follow as Antoine's combined incompetence, flightiness, and general bad luck land him in some ruthlessly ironic situations. Still, the determined youth perseveres. After he loses his hotel job, Antoine is hired as a private detective, and then as a shoe salesman; he's fired, however, for sleeping with the boss's wife (Delphine Seyrig). And when he's not working, he throws money at whores like there's no tomorrow. (official distributor synopsis)
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Part three of the loose pentalogy about Doinel. This time we get to see how his life pans out at the age of twenty-four upon being discharged from the army. I find him less likeable in Stolen Kisses, because he behaves as a womanizer, but for his development in the following parts, this is a significant episode. Otherwise, the classic Truffaut motifs are again presented flawlessly and the whole picture reeks of positive mood, because whatever may happen to the main hero, he plunges into new romantic and job-related escapades. Definitely an unusually high quality picture that is probably more interesting in the context of the pentalogy than as a self-standing movie.
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