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Twenty years after the making of 400 Blows Francois Truffaut looks back at the life of Antoine Doinel by taking a glance at his presentday situation and all his grownup problems. His character's adult...( read more  read more... )hood is realized in this commentary on the fragility of romantic love. In this concluding chapter, Antoine and Christine have separated, and he is seeing a new woman, until Colette enters his life, and encourages him to write a novel.

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PG, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: François Truffaut

Release Date: January 1, 1978

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  • September 11, 2006
    7/10

    Looking through the extras on the Criterion version of Love on the Run I came across a clip from a French television show on film (those French make me mad with envy) in which director Francois Truffaut not only mentioned how he was unhappy with the final film in his Antoin...( read more)e Doinel Cycle but also went into detail explaining how its technical aspects are distracting instead playing as contributing factors of the film as a whole artistic work. Not only do I agree with him but I revel in the fact that the film has this ambitious experimental quality and, while detracting from the film as a whole, I enjoyed this and the film altogether.

    Love on the Run is the only film of the Doinel series that cannot be viewed and appreciated individually. Because of this, as well as it's forgettable narrative style and lack of character development (of the newly introduced characters), this is the worst of the Doinel films.

    Even still I'd be hard pressed to say I disliked the film. It's an elegy of sorts, using clips from the four previous films to remember and then predict what will happen next in the life of Antoine. The use of these flashbacks is at time impressive and always fun as I reminisced of Antoine's past life experiences.
  • May 11, 2008
    Each film in the Doinel series was not quite as good as the one before it. I liked to reminisce about the great moments from the past films, but that's all this film is: Truffaut patting himself on the back for his previous work.
  • March 22, 2008
    The finale of the Antoine Doinel series is easily the weakest, using a whole lot of clips from earlier movies, but if you've followed it this far, you'll want to see how his life turned out.
  • February 12, 2008
    The final part in the story of Antoine Doinel. I enjoyed the flashbacks, mainly the Antoine and Colette ones as its the only part in the series I have yet to see. Overall a nice way to end the story of Antoine Doinel.
  • July 20, 2009
    Ce que Truffaut a réussi avec la saga d'Antoine Doinel relève de l'exploit et avec ce dernier opus, on se retrouve avec une rétrospective qui ne manque pourtant pas de face à faces surprenants et mérités et de réflexions intelligentes, ponctués de flashbacks réels qui poussent l'...( read more)audace à un autre niveau. La conclusion d'une saga comme il y en a peu eue.
  • June 8, 2009
    Being the last film about Antoine Doinel´s life and knowing that Truffaut didn´t like it, some choices are understandable, but it is the less interesting of the series. The flashbacks are enjoyable, specially if you saw all the fims; they bring kind a feeling of nostalgia and the...( read more) happenings between them add a bit.




  • April 29, 2009
    The last of the The Antione Doinel films. Hated by some, loved by me.
  • June 26, 2008
    Conclusion du cycle Antoine Doinel, et de loin le moins intéressant des quatre films. Truffaut aurait probablement dû faire une trilogie et s'abstenir de retourner à son personnage une dernière fois. Il a lui-même avoué qu'il considérait le film comme un échec parce qu'il n'amena...( read more)it rien de nouveau.

    L'oeuvre est construite comme une récapitulation des aventures d'Antoine. On y voit de nombreux flashbacks sous forme d'extraits des films précédents, ce qui devient vite lassant pour le spectateur familier avec les autres volets. De plus, bon nombre de ces extraits sont sortis de leur contexte initial... Le récit en temps présent n'est pas très prenant. Malgré quelques moments biens, il s'agit tout de même d'un long métrage négligeable.
  • March 31, 2008
    I know Truffaut said that he disliked this and felt is was a bad ending to the series even if people enjoyed it, but I feel that that was a dishonest remark as I feel this is an honest depiction of the Doinel series. As an autobiographical piece, he wants it to end nicely, sweetl...( read more)y and to see how he goes through his travails with women, I fell so much for him and it is the wonder of Truffaut's cinema, his beautiful characters. Wes Anderson tries to be like this, but he creates no sympathy without having to mock his characters and for Truffaut, he makes his character loved and here he succeeds over Anderson.
  • March 13, 2008
    If you like the other ones...might as well watch this one too.

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