Stolen Kisses
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women. The third in a series of fi…
Stolen Kisses
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women. The third in a series of films (following The 400 Blows and the short Antoine and Collette) featuring writer-directed François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Leaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine. After having enlisted in the French army three years ago romanticizing the notion as being like in one of his favorite novels, Antoine Doinel is dishonorably discharged as being temperamentally unfit to serve. That dishonorable discharge limits what his future work/career prospects will be. Beyond work, he makes a point to reconnect with his old girlfriend Christine Darbonne and her supportive parents. That three year distance leads to a somewhat awkward resulting relationship where Christine in particular can't decide if they are still romantically involved, friends or not even friends. After a false start on at least a job obtained with the help of the Darbonnes, Antoine, solely by circumstance, ends up working for the Blany Detective Agency as a detective. As he works through case after case assigned to him by Blany, he will come to some conclusions as to certain paths on this phase of his life as his romanticism seems to pervade everything, including how he handles those cases.
Stolen Kisses
Comedy,Drama,Romance
Film Details
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women. The third in a series of films (following The 400 Blows and the short Antoine and Collette) featuring writer-directed François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Leaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses.
Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine. After having enlisted in the French army three years ago romanticizing the notion as being like in one of his favorite novels, Antoine Doinel is dishonorably discharged as being temperamentally unfit to serve. That dishonorable discharge limits what his future work/career prospects will be.
Beyond work, he makes a point to reconnect with his old girlfriend Christine Darbonne and her supportive parents. That three year distance leads to a somewhat awkward resulting relationship where Christine in particular can't decide if they are still romantically involved, friends or not even friends. After a false start on at least a job obtained with the help of the Darbonnes, Antoine, solely by circumstance, ends up working for the Blany Detective Agency as a detective.
As he works through case after case assigned to him by Blany, he will come to some conclusions as to certain paths on this phase of his life as his romanticism seems to pervade everything, including how he handles those cases..