Bed and Board

"First Truffaut gave us The 400 Blows. Then Stolen Kisses... and now Bed and Board."

1970 1h 37m FR

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★7.1TMDB · 319

ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

“First Truffaut gave us The 400 Blows. Then Stolen Kisses... and now Bed and Board.”

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade
Christine Doinel
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel
Madame Darbon
Hiroko Matsumoto
Kyoko
Daniel Boulanger
Le Voisin Ténor
Silvana Blasi
Silvana, la Femme du Ténor
Barbara Laage
Monique, la Secrétaire

Credits

Behind the camera

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

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ERA

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56 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.

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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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DIRECTOR

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Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Néstor Almendros. 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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CAST

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Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade and Daniel Ceccaldi carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "First Truffaut gave us The 400 Blows. Then Stolen Kisses... and now Bed and Board.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

François Truffaut directs. Néstor Almendros behind the camera. Antoine Duhamel scores. Agnès Guillemot cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France, Italy. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

156 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.
3Part of the "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Néstor Almendros. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Antoine Duhamel. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Agnès Guillemot shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade and Daniel Ceccaldi carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "First Truffaut gave us The 400 Blows. Then Stolen Kisses... and now Bed and Board.".
9IMDB entry: tt0065651 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 19 themes, including "adultery", "infidelity", "paris, france", "expensive restaurant".

The technical file

Cinematography: Néstor Almendros
Original score: Antoine Duhamel
Editing: Agnès Guillemot
Production design: Jean Mandaroux
Costume design: Françoise Tournafond
Makeup / hair: Nicole Félix
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: FR
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Bed and Board (1970)

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.