Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) (1968)
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The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an… More The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an excellent view of the Sacré-Coeur. He meets up with his sweetheart, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade, making her film debut), and joins her and her parents for dinner (Daniel Ceccaldi and Claire Duhamel). With the help of Christine's father, he gets a job as a hotel clerk but quickly gets fired after he unwittingly aids a private detective (Harry Max). After running into the detective at a coffee shop, Antonie then falls into a job at the Blady Detective Agency, assisting with the investigation of a magician. He is then assigned to the case of neurotic Georges Tabard (Michel Lonsdale), and ends up working in the stock room of his shoe store. After Antoine has coffee with Tabard's beautiful and intelligent wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), she inevitably tries to seduce him. He later meets Christine in a park and proposes to her, taking the pair into the next film: Bed and Board. One of the lightest entries in the series, Stolen Kisses was ironically filmed during a turbulent political time in France. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Directed By
- François Truffaut
- Written By
- François Truffaut, Claude de Givray
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1968 Wide
- Studio
- Lopert Pictures Corporation
Critic Reviews
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
One of Truffaut's best, lyrical and resonant in a way the later films in the cycle would not be.
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Variety Staff, Variety
The slice-of-life pic also has neat slices of observation, tasteful presentation and easeful acting that avoid banality.
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, Time Out
A persuasively charming comedy.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
A movie so full of love that to define it may make it sound like a religious experience, which, of course, it is -- but in a wonderfully unorthodox, cockeyed way.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Paris was never so beguiling.
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Cast
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Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Antoine Doinel
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Delphine Seyrig
as Fabienne
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Claude Jade
as Christine
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Michel Lonsdale
as Georges Tabard
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Daniel Ceccaldi
as Christine's father
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Claire Duhamel
as Mme. Darbon
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Jean-François Adam
as Albert Tazzi
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Martine Brochard
as Mme. Colin
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Robert Cambourakis
as Mme. Colin's Lover
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Francois Darbon
as Adjutant
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Jacques Delord
as Conjurer
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André Falcon
as M. Blady
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Martine Ferriere
as Manager of Show Shop
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Catherine Lutz
as Mme. Catherine
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Harry Max
as M. Henri
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Marcel Mercier
as Man at Garage
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Joseph Merieau
as Man at Garage
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Paul Pavel
as M. Julien
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Christine Pellé
as Secretary
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Jacques Rispal
as M. Cohn
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Jacques Robiolles
as Water
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Serge Rousseau
as The Stranger
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Simono
as Conjurer's Friend
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Roger Trapp
as Hotel Manager
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Marie-France Pisier
as Colette Tazzi
- Michael Lonsdale
