Stolen Kisses

film by Truffaut [1968]

Also known as: “Baisers volés”

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Stolen Kisses (1968) is a French film directed by Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut and is part of the Antoine Doinel film series. The film stars Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud as Antoine Doinel, tracing his romantic entanglements and progress through adulthood. L\u00e9aud's portrayal captures Doinel as an engaging, though somewhat ill-equipped, young man navigating life's responsibilities. Truffaut, a key figure in the French New Wave, often infused his films with personal experiences and explored themes of childhood and relationships. Stolen Kisses follows Doinel's journey through courtship, marriage, and eventually divorce, as depicted in subsequent films like Bed and Board and Love on the Run.12

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Jean-Pierre Léaud
…at Twenty), Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), Domicile conjugale (1970; Bed and Board), and L’Amour en fuite (1979; Love on the Run). Léaud was perfectly suited to play the part of Doinel, an engaging and innocent young man who is not particularly well equipped to meet the responsibilities of adult…
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…at Twenty), Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), Domicile conjugale (1970; Bed and Board), and L’Amour en fuite (1979; Love on the Run). Léaud was perfectly suited to play the part of Doinel, an engaging and innocent young man who is not particularly well equipped to meet the responsibilities of adult…
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Delphine Seyrig
…François Truffaut’s Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), as a garish beauty in the satire Mister Freedom (1968), as a lesbian vampire in Les Lèvres rouges (1971; Daughters of Darkness), and in Luis Buñuel’s Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
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…François Truffaut’s Baisers volés (1968; Stolen Kisses), as a garish beauty in the satire Mister Freedom (1968), as a lesbian vampire in Les Lèvres rouges (1971; Daughters of Darkness), and in Luis Buñuel’s Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
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