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47 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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Love on the Run
"Antoine Doinel. He's got four ladies ... Nine lives ... and Plenty of alibis!"
1979 1h 33m FR
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7.0
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★7.0TMDB · 222
RomanceDramaComedy
Synopsis
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Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
“Antoine Doinel. He's got four ladies ... Nine lives ... and Plenty of alibis!”
Cast
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Marie-France Pisier
Colette Tazzi
Claude Jade
Christine Doinel
Dani
Liliane
Dorothée
Sabine Barnerias
Daniel Mesguich
Xavier Barnerias
Julien Bertheau
Monsieur Lucien
Marie Henriau
La Juge du Divorce
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- François Truffaut
- Writers
- François Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel
- Languages
- French
- Countries
- France
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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 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 Martine Barraqué 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 Claude Jade carry the top of the cast.
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FACT
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Marketing tagline: "Antoine Doinel. He's got four ladies ... Nine lives ... and Plenty of alibis!".
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IMDB entry: tt0078771 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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The take
François Truffaut directs. Néstor Almendros behind the camera. Georges Delerue scores. Martine Barraqué cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 147 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 2Part of the "The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
- 3Directed by François Truffaut, shot by Néstor Almendros. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 5Editor Martine Barraqué shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier and Claude Jade carry the top of the cast.
- 7Marketing tagline: "Antoine Doinel. He's got four ladies ... Nine lives ... and Plenty of alibis!".
- 8IMDB entry: tt0078771 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 9Classified under 8 themes, including "adultery", "paris, france", "bookshop", "becoming an adult".
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Néstor Almendros
- Original score
- Georges Delerue
- Editing
- Martine Barraqué
- Production design
- Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
- Costume design
- Monique Dury
- Makeup / hair
- Thi-Loan Nguyen
- Runtime
- 93 min · 1h 33m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
- Certification (US)
- PG
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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François Truffaut
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What people are saying
- alexbakshaev
Godawful opening and closing credits song apart, this final entry into the Antoine Doinel Saga is an enjoyable experience. Fairly briskly paced during the first twenty minutes or so, the film later sinks into a series of unnecessarily lengthy flashbacks, filmed in various aspect ratios. Jean-Pierre Leaud is his usual charming self and the main reason to watch 'Love on the Run'. One only wishes Truffaut hadn't cannibalized his earlier works to beef up the film's running time.
- CinemaSerf★ 7/10
By now, we know that "Antoine Doinel" (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a bit of a scoundrel and the first few scenes here illustrate that to a T! The ink is barely dry on his divorce from "Christine" (Claude Jade), when he is leaving new gal "Sabine" (Dorothée) to meet up with their son "Alphonse". This behaviour rather epitomises the problem for "Sabine" who yearns for just a little more commitment from her flaky boyfriend. He, on the other hand, is continuing to juggle the plates to nobody's particular satisfaction and that's depicted in this entertainingly stitched together drama using a series of flashbacks and contemporaneous storylines that only become more complex when he runs into his original infatuation "Colette" (Marie-France Pisier) - and him without a train ticket, too! For "Antoine" it's all a maelstrom of emotions that surround and immerse him, frequently leaving him flailing, but who might make him happy? Whom might he actually make happy if he stops being selfish long enough? Could he ever be that selfless? There's a fine chemistry here between Léaud and both Pisier and Dorothée as the comedy veers perilously close to slapstick at times, but it does stay just the on right side as his character raises laughs of both empathy and shame as his escapades see his life unravel before us. Truffaut keeps it moving along quickly and there's some observational wit amidst a script that quite poignantly sums up a man I reckon it'd be better not to know - especially if you're a woman.
Production companies
Who made it
Les Films du Carrosse
FR
Key crew
- ProducerFrançois Truffaut
- EditorMartine Barraqué
- Production DesignJean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
- Costume DesignMonique Dury
- VocalsAlain Souchon
- Makeup ArtistThi-Loan Nguyen
- Production ManagerMarcel Berbert
- Unit ManagerGeneviève Lefebvre
- Second Assistant DirectorEmmanuel Clot
- First Assistant DirectorSuzanne Schiffman
- Third Assistant DirectorNathalie Seaver
- Assistant DecoratorPierre Gompertz
- Property MasterMichel Grimaud
- Assistant DecoratorJean-Louis Povéda
- SoundMichel Laurent
- Sound MixerJacques Maumont
- First Assistant CameraFlorent Bazin
- GripGérard Bougeant
- Key GripCharlie Freess
- GripJacques Frejabue
- GafferJean-Claude Gasché
- Still PhotographerDominique Le Rigoleur
- ElectricianMichel Leclerq
- Second Assistant CameraEmilio Pacull
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- adultery
- paris, france
- bookshop
- becoming an adult
- cemetery
- 1970s
- print shop
- printer
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1979-04-06PG
Also known as
International titles
- Love on the RunUS
- El amor en fugaES
- 爱情飞逝CN
- O Amor em FugaBR
- Kärlek på flyktSE
- 사랑의 도피KR
