Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer

Antoine Doinel is now 26. He married Christine, who teaches the violin. They will have a baby. In a new job, Antoine meets Kyoto, a japanese woman and fells in love with her. They have a love affair. ...( read more  read more... )Christine discovers it and Antoine leaves the house...

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PG, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: François Truffaut

Release Date: September 1, 1970

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DVD Release Date: April 29, 2003

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  • March 17, 2009
    Francois Truffaut is the family member, maybe an uncle or a distant cousin, who always tells good stories. He may narrate the simplest episodes with a tenderness, an openness of spirit, that engages. He is the most creative director whose work I have ever seen. He infuses all of ...( read more)his films with sincerity and beauty that can only really be achieved through a deep, deep admiration for the art of cinema and for the tiniest details of human life. Bed and Board may not be the world's most interesting movie on paper, but when you're watching it, it is.

    Antoine Doinel is a newlywed in Bed and Board. His wife is the wonderful Claude Jade, so cute as Christine. Their daily life is quaint, relaxed, very intimate. They are going to have a baby. Antoine happens to meet a Japanese girl whose allure he can't resist, and begins an affair with her.

    Ever the free spirit, Antoine has a hard time conforming with a fixed situation, a fixed location, a fixed girlfriend. He loves his wife, but he can't bring himself to resist external temptations. Christine is very polite, proper, bourgeoise, and we all know Antoine's upbringing was not exactly the same... so at times he feels uncomfortable in this new lifestyle, he needs a break. Bed and Board tells a sweet story about sacrificing the constant search for excitement and the ideallistic notions we have about what we want our lives to be, and the process of giving value to what we do have. Antoine doesn't have to settle down if he doesn't want to, he just has to go through all these things, ups and downs, to discover by himself that he DOES want to. Happens to everyone. Happens in life. Happened to Truffaut, and happens here. Things fall in and out of place, situations are never clear, everything is relative to everyone. Soon Antoine will discover where his loyalty lies.

    Maybe this is all unexciting on paper. And yet it is so enrapturing when watched. Bed and Board is funny and witty as much as it is romantic. Truffaut can elevate anyone's emotional intelligence with his craft. Jean Pierre Leaud never disappoints, especially not when playing Antoine Doinel, possibly his most important role ever. I can't wait to see Baisers Voles now.
  • August 30, 2006
    8/10

    Once again we have Antoine Doinel lost and adventurous, trying to get his body to where his soul wants to be. This film presents an important step in many a young persons' life, when they let go of thier idealistic visions of what they wanted to be or how they thought they ...( read more)would live and embrace, at least to the rest of the world, their mostly dreadful reality. In this sense Bed and Board on its own (out of the context of the five Doinel films) could be considered a tragedy.

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    Along with Stolen Kisses, this is one of the great relantionship movies. With literary intentions and yet simple enough to be both familiar and a bit voyeuristic, Bed and Board is a film for adults, those who have lived and can relate to the very real feelings and relationships of the characters. For those who can't relate, like my 20-year-old self, it presents a window into the future and acts a cautionary tale.

    Not only is it a great romantic drama, but Truffaut also throws in comedic bits to lighten the mood, most of which I caught as opposed to my viewing of Stolen Kisses.

    With his Doinel series, Truffaut created one of the most authentic, layered, and intensely realized characters of cinema. Antoine Doinel is a real person, flaws and all. He's a person of passions, motives, and ideals. But he's also still changing and in this film, sadly, he changes from a boy to man.
  • March 22, 2008
    Not quite as good as Stolen Kisses, or the 400 Blows, but the 4th Antoine Doinel movie still much to say about marriage and life in general.
  • February 8, 2008
    The penultimate film in Traffaut's Antoine Doinel series. This follows on from Stolen Kisses. Antione and Christine are now married and quickly have a child. Antoine starts a new job and falls for a beautiful Japanese woman.
    Both Jean-Pierre Leaud and Claude Jade put in great ...( read more)performances and the film is filled with humorous dialogue.
  • April 18, 2007
    "If you use art to settle accounts, it is no longer art."
    I'm a little confused at what Truffaut is saying here. Is it a critique of other directors, like Godard, who Truffaut feels have become too political? Or is it a self-critique since Truffaut is mining his life for materia...( read more)l just like Antoine is for his book? It's a very interesting quote.
  • August 3, 2009
    Não fede nem cheira. Anyway, não sou lá muito fã de Truffaut.
  • July 12, 2009
    Truffaut poursuit son exploration humaine à travers Antoine Doinel et offre ainsi une réflexion poussée, réfléchie, mais hautement amusante sur le couple aidé par la certaine stupidité terre à terre, mais attachante de son personnage fétiche.
  • February 26, 2009
    The Japanese woman speaking French and Japanese was pretty awesome. I -hated- Doinel's hair in this movie.
  • January 2, 2009
    Le quatrième film dans la série des aventures d'Antoine Doinel. Un portrait intelligent d'un couple marié très jeune. Les dialogues sont superbes, tantôt hilarants, tantôt d'une tristesse subtile, et les situations évoquent toujours quelque chose de vrai, un lieu commun revisité ...( read more)avec subtilité et esprit.

    Plusieurs scènes portent des traces de génie, notamment celle où Antoine ne cesse de téléphoner Christine alors qu'il est au restaurant avec une autre. La réalisation est effacée, mais efficace. Truffaut est au sommet de son art en tant qu'auteur et fait preuve d'une grande sensibilité. Ses personnages se complexifient, embellissent, gagnent en richesse. Un film mémorable en ce qui me concerne.
  • October 7, 2008
    nominated for best foreign film by NBR

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