Taglines: Antoine knows what he wants to do…his problem is doing it.
After being discharged from the army for insubordination, Antoine Doinel visits his former girlfriend Christine Darbon, and her father finds a temporary job of night watchman for Antoine in a hotel. The naive Antoine is deceived by a private eye in his first night shift, and fired on the next morning.
The investigator invites the clumsy Antoine to work in his company, where he is assigned for some minor jobs, until he has to investigate why the owner of a shoes store, Mr. Georges Tabard, is detested by his employees. Meanwhile Antoine falls in love for the gorgeous Mrs. Fabienne Tabard.
The story of Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) in Baisers volés (1968) that he did not belong to the world of adults was actually the remains of Truffaut’s own life. The attitude of the director, who grew up with his stepfather figure in an environment where he could not adapt, by seeing his grandmother rather than his mother, was in parallel with Doinel, who was tangent to 68 uprisings.
Doinel, who is dealing with professions that do not match the realities of the country he lives in, was unable to feel the sense of belonging, it was an inference to the family atmosphere of the director’s childhood. Baisers volés, which Truffaut sees as the production that best affects emotional balance, is an important place because it is a work that carries its own reflection and completes the story of Doinel, which he started with his first feature film Les quatre cents coups (1958).
Baisers Volés (1968)
Directed by: François Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel, Martine Ferrière, Catherine Lutz, Serge Rousseau, Paul Pavel
Screenplay by: François Truffaut (scenario, Claude de Givray
Production Design by: Claude Pignot
Cinematography by: Denys Clerval
Film Editing by: Agnès Guillemot
Music by: Antoine Duhamel
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: United Artists (France)
Release Date: August 14, 1968
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