Antoine and Colette
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| German title | Antoine and Colette | ||
| Original title | Antoine and Colette | ||
| Country of production | France | ||
| Publishing year | 1962 | ||
| length | 29 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 0 | ||
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| Director | François Truffaut | ||
| music | Georges Delerue | ||
| camera | Raoul Coutard | ||
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Antoine and Colette is a French short film by François Truffaut from 1962. It is the second film in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle and part of the international episode film Love at Twenty .
action
Antoine and Colette shows Antoine Doinel as a 17-year-old who works in record production at Philips . He lives alone in a room on Place Clichy , where he spends most of his time listening to classical music. He often meets with René, his school friend from They kissed and they beat him , to attend concerts and musicological lectures.
In a Berlioz concert he sees Colette, a high school student, and falls in love with her. Colette is about the same age as Antoine, but - unlike Antoine - has a warm, supportive family that she lives with. Antoine develops a strong friendship with Colette and quickly with her parents, who soon treat him like part of the family.
Colette's feelings for Antoine are initially ambiguous, and in order to be closer to her, he moves into an apartment just across from hers. Although she continues to treat him kindly, it is gradually becoming apparent that she does not love him. He is unhappy about this and does not want to see her at first, but accepts an invitation from her parents to eat. They continue to treat him like a son and would also like to see a romantic relationship between the two teenagers.
All hopes are dashed when another man rings the doorbell to pick up Colette. Her parents and Antoine are left helpless in front of the television.
background
Truffaut had just finished working on Jules and Jim in 1962 when he was approached by producer Pierre Roustang for his episode film project Love at twenty . He helped to select directors Shintarô Ishihara , Marcel Ophüls , Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda , who should also be involved in the project. In his book Truffaut On Truffaut , Truffaut later said: “For me, the French episode gave me the opportunity to do a project I wouldn't have dared to do on my own: a short sequel to my first film They kissed and they hit him , in which we meet young Antoine Doinel three years later on his first romantic adventure, one that illustrates morality: you risk losing everything if you want too much. "
Antoine and Colette is a largely autobiographical work based on the seduction of 17-year-old Truffaut by an unusual beauty named Lilliane Latvin. Truffaut met Latvin at the Cinémathèque Française and gave up his job as a welder to move to Paris and be close to her. Like Antoine, he took an apartment across from hers so he could watch all of her activities. In the end, she wasn't interested in him or his friends; it had also drawn the attention of Jean Gruault and Jean-Luc Godard .
Web links
- Antoine and Colette in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Antoine and Colette at Turner Classic Movies
- Criterion Collection essay by Kent Jones (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Antoine and Colette . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 998 DVD).
- ↑ Don Allen: Finally Truffaut. Beaufort Books, New York 1985, ISBN 0-8253-0335-4 , p. 226.
- ^ A b Jeff Stafford: Antoine and Colette . on tcm.com, accessed April 9, 2009.
- ↑ Kent Jones: Antoine and Colette . on criterion.com, accessed April 9, 2009.