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This article is about a French film. For lodging, see Bed and breakfast.
Bed and Board
original film posterDirected by François Truffaut Produced by François Truffaut
Marcel BerbertWritten by François Truffaut Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud
Claude Jade
Hiroko Berghauer
Daniel Ceccaldi
Claire DuhamelRelease date(s) 9 September 1970 (France)
21 December 1971 (NYC, USA)
8 July 1971 (UK)Running time 100 min Country France Language French Bed and Board (French: Domicile Conjugal) is a 1970 French film directed by François Truffaut. It belongs to Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses, showing the married life of Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade).
Synopsis
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, Bed and Board is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Léaud : Antoine Doinel
- Claude Jade : Christine Doinel
- Daniel Ceccaldi : Lucien Darbon
- Claire Duhamel : Madame Darbon
- Hiroko Berghauer : Kyoko
- Daniel Boulanger : Tenor
- Silvana Blasi : Silvana
- Barbara Laage : Monique, secretary
- Billy Kearns : Max
- Claude Véga : Strangler
- Jacques Jouanneau : Césarin
- Danièle Girard : Ginette
- Marie Irakane : Mrs Martin
- Philippe Léotard : Drunkard
- Pierre Maguelon : Cérasin's friend
- Jacques Cottin : Monsieur Hulot (uncredited))
External links
- Bed and Board at the Internet Movie Database
- Bed and Board at AllRovi
- Criterion Collection essay by Noah Baumbach
Films by François Truffaut Directed Une Visite · Les Mistons · The 400 Blows · Shoot the Piano Player · Une Histoire d'eau · Jules and Jim · Antoine and Colette · The Soft Skin · Fahrenheit 451 · The Bride Wore Black · Stolen Kisses · Mississippi Mermaid · The Wild Child · Bed and Board · Two English Girls · Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me · Day for Night · The Story of Adele H. · Small Change · The Man Who Loved Women · The Green Room · Love on the Run · The Last Metro · The Woman Next Door · Confidentially YoursWritten only Categories:- French films
- French-language films
- 1970 films
- 1970s comedy-drama films
- 1970s romantic comedy films
- Films directed by François Truffaut
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