Getting set to watch 100 French films over 100 days I decide that it was time to take a look at some French Videos that my dad had picked up for 10p each (a drop from the £17 they were sold at in HMV!) Since having watched two of his works in May,I was delighted to spot a rather overlooked François Truffaut title,which led to me getting ready to see love go on the run.
The plot:
Shortly after getting a divorce from his wife Christine, proof reader (and novelist) Antoine Doinel crosses paths with his teenage love Colette Tazzi.Spotting Doinel,Tazzi remembers that she has still not picked up his autobiography.Picking up the book,Tazzi soon discovers that Doinel's memories of the relationship are very different to her own.
View on the film:
Despite being labelled "A swindle" by its own creator, (who made it to get some much needed cash for his production company) co- writer/(along with Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman and actress Marie- France Pisier) director François Truffaut & cinematographer Néstor Almendros get the movie to rise out of its clip show trappings,by giving Doinel's criss-crossing with his past lovers a crystal clear clarity which melts into a dizzying final shot.Throwing clips in from the other Doinel films into the mix, Truffaut does very well at changing the context of them,with the new narration making the grainy clips look like fading memories.
While it never settles down,the screenplay by Truffaut/Schiffman and Almendros takes advantage of the clips to strike a wonderfully contrasting picture of Doinel,via the clips as memories revealing that Doinel is still caught in a childish mind-set.Joined by alluring co-writer Marie-France Pisier as Colette Tazzi, Jean-Pierre Léaud gives a great performance as Doinel,thanks to Léaud twisting and turning every attempt Doinel makes to avoid a serious relationship,as Léaud and Truffaut wave farewell to Antoine Doinel.
The plot:
Shortly after getting a divorce from his wife Christine, proof reader (and novelist) Antoine Doinel crosses paths with his teenage love Colette Tazzi.Spotting Doinel,Tazzi remembers that she has still not picked up his autobiography.Picking up the book,Tazzi soon discovers that Doinel's memories of the relationship are very different to her own.
View on the film:
Despite being labelled "A swindle" by its own creator, (who made it to get some much needed cash for his production company) co- writer/(along with Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman and actress Marie- France Pisier) director François Truffaut & cinematographer Néstor Almendros get the movie to rise out of its clip show trappings,by giving Doinel's criss-crossing with his past lovers a crystal clear clarity which melts into a dizzying final shot.Throwing clips in from the other Doinel films into the mix, Truffaut does very well at changing the context of them,with the new narration making the grainy clips look like fading memories.
While it never settles down,the screenplay by Truffaut/Schiffman and Almendros takes advantage of the clips to strike a wonderfully contrasting picture of Doinel,via the clips as memories revealing that Doinel is still caught in a childish mind-set.Joined by alluring co-writer Marie-France Pisier as Colette Tazzi, Jean-Pierre Léaud gives a great performance as Doinel,thanks to Léaud twisting and turning every attempt Doinel makes to avoid a serious relationship,as Léaud and Truffaut wave farewell to Antoine Doinel.