Bed and Board (1970) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Domicile conjugal
Year
1970
Running time
97 min.
Country
France
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production France-Italy;
Genre
Comedy. Drama. Romance | Romantic Comedy. Sequel
Movie Groups
Synopsis
The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart Christine (Claude Jade) and still plugging away at odd jobs. When his experiments in the florist trade burn his bouquets to a smoky black ruin, he decides that it's time for another trade, and lands a job sending radio-controlled toy boats around a miniature harbor mock-up. It's about that time that he learns of his impending fatherhood, but he throws a monkey wrench into his new happiness when he becomes obsessed with a beautiful young Japanese woman (Hiroku Berghauer).
Rankings Position
Awards
1972: National Board of Review: Top Foreign Films
1971: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
Critics' reviews
- "It is laced with little incidents, quirky characters, incisive insights and quintessentially French national traits of complacency"
- "One of the loveliest, most intelligent movies we'll see in all of 1971."
- "The film is entertaining and discreetly sentimental, though perhaps a little too flattering to the fantasies of the young adult audience."
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