Antoine and Colette

"Will Colette ultimately fall for Antoine's romanticism?"

1962 0h 30m FR

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7.2

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7.5

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★7.2TMDB · 286★7.5IMDB · 6,675

RomanceDramaComedy

Synopsis

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Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

“Will Colette ultimately fall for Antoine's romanticism?”

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Marie-France Pisier
Colette
Rosy Varte
La mère de Colette
François Darbon
Le beau-père de Colette
Patrick Auffay
René Bigey
Jean-François Adam
Albert Tazzi
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: François Truffaut
Writers: François Truffaut
Languages: French
Countries: France

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RUNTIME

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Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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64 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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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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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Raoul Coutard. 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 Georges Delerue. 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 Claudine Bouché shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier and Rosy Varte carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

François Truffaut directs. Raoul Coutard behind the camera. Georges Delerue scores. Claudine Bouché cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
264 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Raoul Coutard. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Claudine Bouché shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier and Rosy Varte carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Will Colette ultimately fall for Antoine's romanticism?".
10IMDB entry: tt1180329 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Original score: Georges Delerue
Editing: Claudine Bouché
Runtime: 30 min · 0h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: FR
Certification (US): 0
IMDB: Antoine and Colette (1962)
IMDB rating: 7.5/10 · 6,675 votes
US box office: $509

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.