Stolen Kisses

"Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it."

1968 1h 30m FR

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★7.3TMDB · 476

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The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, 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.

“Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it.”

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade
Christine Darbon
Delphine Seyrig
Fabienne Tabard
Michael Lonsdale
Georges Tabard
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel
Madame Darbon
Harry-Max
Monsieur Henri
André Falcon
Monsieur Blady

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: François Truffaut
Writers: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon
Languages: French
Countries: France

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.3× over at the box office.

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ERA

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58 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Denys Clerval. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Antoine Duhamel. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Agnès Guillemot shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

François Truffaut directs. Denys Clerval behind the camera. Antoine Duhamel scores. Agnès Guillemot cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

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Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Made its money back 4.3× over at the box office.
458 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Part of the "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Denys Clerval. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Antoine Duhamel. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Agnès Guillemot shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade and Delphine Seyrig carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it.".
11IMDB entry: tt0062695 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 22 themes, including "hotel", "hotel room", "adultery", "individual".

The technical file

Cinematography: Denys Clerval
Original score: Antoine Duhamel
Editing: Agnès Guillemot
Production design: Claude Pignot
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $350,000
Box office: $1,500,000
Return: 429% of budget
Original language: FR
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Stolen Kisses (1968)

Awards

Louis Delluc Prize

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Part of

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection

The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.

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CinemaSerf2024-08-11
★ 7/10
At times Jean-Pierre Léaud's "Doinel" character reminded me a little of Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" as he works his way through this engaging comedy about the lives and loves of a man whom, having just left the army, must adjust to civilian life. Initially, he lucks out as his girlfriend "Christine" (Claude Jade) manages to get her dad (Daniel Ceccaldi) to get him a job. Now a security guard he certainly isn't, so his tenure is short lived but it does introduce him to the intriguing world of the private detective. This leads to a job keeping an eye on the ostensibly upstanding businessman "Georges" (Michael Lonsdale) which in turn sees him meet that man's wife "Fabienne" (Delphine Seyrig) with whom, yep you've guessed... Why would this beautiful and charming woman be married to a shoe salesman? Well as the young man digs deeper, we discover - via a series of increasingly daft scenarios, that "Doinel" is pretty inept at just about everything but that has a charm to it that might just prove surprisingly successful in the least likely of fashions. Léaud is on good form here presenting an amiable buffoon that it's quite easy to like. There's also some enjoyable chemistry between him and both Seyrig and Jade that at times can make you cringe with embarrassment as he struggles to get to grips with his relationships with women. The comedy is plentiful and it's actually quite provocative for the late 1960s. It's a story about sexual awakenings and that elusive sense of self-realisation that I found flew by for a ninety minutes that still works entertainingly now.

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