Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses ( Original title: meringues volés ) is a movie directed by François Truffaut from the year 1968.

Action

The young Antoine Doinel (Jean -Pierre Léaud ) wants to escape a final fixation with girlfriend Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade ). He left the army before the end of his three -year term, after he has spent a lot of time because of discipline problems in the arrest. From Christine's parents, he learns that she has boycotted the lessons at the conservatory because of the removal of the director ( a parallel to the Affaire Henri Langlois ) and is out of town for winter sports. His father- in-law ( Daniel Ceccaldi ) gives Antoine immediately a job as a night porter in a hotel in Montmartre. A little later examined him there to Christine and they arrange to meet. Antoine loses his job fairly quickly, as it can be by a private investigator and the husband of a woman who was staying at the hotel with her ​​lover by surprise. Through the investigator he gets a job in the detective Blady. Work and private life mingle, as Antoine Christine goes into a vaudeville to shade a magician, where he can sit to track the man. However, the daydreamer Antoine is not very suitable for the observation and loses him. Blady is unhappy and is considering how to use Antoine better. Antoine's interest in Christine ( in the two-year relationship was, as yet, to no intimacy ) can be in the aftermath of. A little later he falls in love as an undercover investigator in the woman ( Delphine Seyrig ), a client (Michael Lonsdale ) and Christine leaves on the grounds that he had never admired. Christine followed in turn unnoticed by an unknown person ( Serge Rousseau ), finally takes the initiative: You know that Antoine is now staying with a television repair service, because shortly before, he had collided with his work just with the car of her father. One weekend, her parents are out of town and Christine is alone at home. She manipulates the TV set, calls to the emergency service and prompt Antoine comes to the well-known address. The next morning, both sitting at the breakfast table. As Antoine breaks a biscuit when brushing with butter, bring him to Christine - legendary among film lovers - " biscuit trick" with: The biscuit does not break when you hold a second biscuit among the rusks to bestreichenden. They write each other messages on pieces of paper until you Antoine touches the end of a bottle opener as an engagement ring on her finger. As Antoine and Christine sitting on a walk on a park bench, the stranger enters zoom, Christine explained in the presence of Antoine's, to be forfeited her and gives her reflection, to disengage from their previous bonds before he retires again. Christine calls him crazy, confirmed Antoine and both move on.

Background

  • The film Stolen Kisses is part of the Antoine Doinel cycle. Started this was with the movie They kissed and they beat him. A segment of the film love with twenty ( Antoine and Colette ) tells the story of the protagonist on. After Stolen Kisses by Jean -Pierre Léaud (Antoine ) and Claude Jade occurred (Christine ) played characters in table and bed, and the last time in love on the run.
  • The film is dedicated to Henri Langlois, the director of the Cinémathèque française. Langlois was removed during filming by the French Minister of Culture André Malraux his office, which led to violent protests at which Truffaut substantial participation.
  • The title meringues volés is a song by Charles Trenet, Que reste - t-il de nos amours? Taken, which is recorded at the beginning and end of the film.

Criticism

" Francois Truffaut credible description combines melancholy and serene forms an exemplary detective story and dream-like memories to a poetic testimony of traditional and modern French cinema. A safe exercise in style, in which the director einarbeitete their own experiences. "

Awards

Nomination

  • The movie Stolen Kisses was nominated in 1969 for both the Academy Awards, as well as at the Golden Globe Awards as a French post in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Winner

  • Grand prix du cinéma français
  • Louis- Delluc Price
  • Prix ​​Méliès
  • Prix ​​Femina Belge
  • Prize of the British Film Institute
  • Prize of the Hollywood Foreign Association
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