Antoine and Colette

Infobox_Film
name = Antoine and Colette


image_size= 175px
director = François Truffaut
writer = François Truffaut
starring = Jean-Pierre Léaud
Marie-France Pisier
Patrick Auffay
released = July, 1962
country =
language = French
preceded_by = "The 400 Blows"
followed_by = "Stolen Kisses"
imdb_id = 0055747

"Antoine and Colette" ( _fr. Antoine et Colette) is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The film was made for the 1962 anthology collection, "Love at Twenty", which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.

Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, "The 400 Blows". Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influential outpouring of work from young French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer.

"Antoine and Colette" catches up with Antoine Doinel as a solitary 17-year-old who works at Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He meets Colette, a high-school student, at a concert and falls in love for the first time. The film traces his awkward courtship of the icy Colette, who never reciprocates. Léaud gives a mature, knowing performance, establishing Antoine as a universal figure, an Everyman — or in this case, an Everyboy-man — whose joys and pains can be felt by everyone. Truffaut continues the soft, moving style he employed in "Les Quatre Cents Coups" to great effect, painting a poetic portrait of young, unrequited love. Doinel's adventures follow with "Stolen Kisses", "Bed and Board" and "Love on the Run".

Cast and roles

* Jean-Pierre Léaud - Antoine Doinel
* Marie-France Pisier - Colette
* Patrick Auffay - René
* Rosy Varte - Colette's mother
* François Darbon - Colette's father in law
* Jean-François Adam - Albert Tazzi
* Pierre Schaeffer - Himself

External links

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* [http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/truffaut.html Some Criticism on Truffaut]
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=5&eid=287&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Kent Jones]