L'Amour à vingt ans (Love at Twenty) (1962)

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Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo… More Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini continues in sketch two about a tough mistress who keeps her lover on a short tether. Shintaro Ishihara renders the only violent episode -- that of a disturbed young worker who becomes a real lady-killer. Marcel Ophüls (son of the late and great Max Ophüls) directs an upbeat tale about a journalist who accepts the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood when a brief fling with a woman ends in a pregnancy. The last vignette, directed by the well-known Polish helmer Andrzej Wajda, is about a brave act by a young soldier whose deed gains him the admiration of a woman, but the response from other men his age is something different. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 53 min.
Directed By: Shintarô Ishihara
Genres: Drama, Romance, Art House & International

In Theaters: Jun 22, 1962 Wide

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Alice S

Antoine et Colette is seriously very bad. Wooden acting and script is loaded with backstory. I would like to see the other shorts though - precursor to Paris, Je'Taime?