Stolen kisses
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| German title | Stolen kisses |
| Original title | Meringue volés |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | François Truffaut |
| script | François Truffaut, Claude de Givray , Bernard Revon |
| production | Marcel Berbert |
| music | Antoine Duhamel |
| camera | Denys Clerval |
| cut | Agnes Guillemot |
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Stolen Kisses (Original title: Baisers volés ) is a film by François Truffaut from 1968 with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade in the leading roles.
It is the third film in Truffaut's five-part Antoine Doinel cycle .
action
The young Antoine Doinel wants to escape a permanent fixation on girlfriend Christine Darbon. He left the army before the end of his three-year service after spending a long time in detention due to discipline issues. He learns from Christine's parents that she has boycotted classes at the conservatory because of the dismissal of the director (a parallel to the Henri Langlois affair ) and that she has gone away to do winter sports. His future father-in-law was able to get Antoine a job as a night porter in a hotel in Montmartre that same day. A little later Christine visits him there. It becomes clear that she cares about him, but is also much nicer to him than he is to her. They arrange to meet. Antoine loses his job quite quickly because he falls for a private detective, so he leads the detective and his client into the room of the wife and her lover.
However, the investigator quickly gave him a post at the Blady detective agency. Antoine proudly reports about it to Christine and her father. When he returns a tender kiss from Christines with a passionate kiss in the Darbons' wine cellar, she fends off him. Even his new job as a detective overwhelmed Antoine: When he went to a vaudeville theater with Christine, where he was supposed to shadow the magician who was performing there, Antoine left his girlfriend in astonishment to pursue the man, but soon lost his track. Blady considers the daydreamer unsuitable for observation and now sets Antoine on a seemingly easy case: he is employed in Monsieur Tabard's business and as an undercover investigator to find out why he is not loved by anyone. Antoine's interest in Christine, in whose two-year relationship there has not yet been any intimacy, diminishes in the following years, because he soon falls in love with the much older Madame Tabard and leaves Christine on the grounds that he had never admired her. Madame Tabard and Antoine have a brief affair that leads to another resignation of Antoine.
He now finds work in a television repair service and collides with his company car, of all things, with Christine's father's car. Christine, who has been followed unnoticed by a stranger for a long time, has not lost interest in him despite Antoine's rejection and tries to visit him, but stands in front of a closed door. Since she now knows where the young man works from her father, she resorted to a ruse: when she had the house to herself for a weekend, she manipulated the television set, called Antoine's company, and Antoine's company promptly came to the known one Address. The next morning they both sit at the breakfast table. When Antoine breaks a rusk while being coated with butter, Christine teaches him the "rusk trick" that has become legendary among film lovers: the rusk does not break if you hold a second rusk under the rusk to be coated. They write each other messages on pieces of paper until Antoine slips the end of a bottle opener over her finger like an engagement ring. When Antoine and Christine are sitting on a park bench for a walk, the stranger approaches, explains Christine in the presence of Antoine that she has fallen for her and gives her time to break her previous ties before he withdraws again. Christine calls him crazy, Antoine confirms this, and they both move on.
Emergence
François Truffaut initially put a clique at the side of his alter ego Antoine Doinel; one member was Christine Darbon. Before the cast with Claude Jade , the character of Christine was not yet fully developed, as the first treatment shows: "We will examine all of this again, as this personality will be completely changed according to the young actress we choose for it." After Truffaut At the Théâtre Moderne, 19-year-old Claude Jade had discovered, he changed the script and she became the protagonist. Truffaut was "carried away by her beauty, her character, her manners and her joie de vivre". If the love between Antoine and Christine is the guiding principle of the film, Truffaut's co-authors Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon worked on the detective story.
While working on the film, Truffaut got involved in the fight for the Cinémathèque française . In February 1968 he led the first demonstration, led by Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade, and the protests seize him. Claude Jade: “François was often late, he missed rehearsals; in the end it's a small miracle that the film turned out so wonderful. ”Truffaut had many scenes improvised, which increased the ease of the narrative.
During the filming, Truffaut fell in love with his leading actress, who was 16 years his junior. He often invited her to his place; As in the film “Stolen Kisses”, the letters came by pneumatic tube. Only after the end of shooting did he confess his love to her, and the two got engaged; In a letter, Truffaut asked Claude Jade's parents for their daughter's hand. The wedding was already being planned, Jean-Claude Brialy and Marcel Berbert were to be the witnesses, but Truffaut withdrew his promise. After the breakup, Truffaut and Jade found each other again as friends and made two more films in the period that followed. Until his death he called her "my third daughter".
“Stolen Kisses” was a sensational success and received numerous national and international awards.
background
- The film stolen kisses is part of the Antoine Doinel cycle . It started with the movie They kissed and they beat him . A segment of the film Love at Twenty ( Antoine and Colette ) continues the story of the protagonist. After stolen kisses , the characters played by Jean-Pierre Léaud (Antoine) and Claude Jade (Christine) appeared in bed and in bed, and for the last time in love on the run .
- The film is dedicated to Henri Langlois , director of the Cinémathèque française . Langlois was removed from office during the filming by the French Minister of Culture André Malraux , which led to violent protests in which Truffaut played a key role.
- The title Baisers volés is a jazz standard - chanson by Charles Trenet , Que reste-t-il de nos amours? , taken at the beginning and end of the film.
criticism
“Francois Truffaut's credible description combines melancholy, cheerful forms of an exemplary detective story and dream-like memories to a poetic testimony to both traditional and modern French film art. A safe style exercise in which the director also incorporated his own experiences. "
"A film that is enchanting with its charm, naturalness and spontaneity [...], which knows how to playfully express the curiosity of its protagonist for life in a simple detective story."
The critics agree after the cinema debut of 19-year-old Claude Jade and see her as a great new hope for French film: “ Le Figaro ” enthuses that Valery Larbaud was very impressed by her, and the newspaper “ La Croix ” closes her criticism with “one last word” to François Truffaut: “With Claude Jade you have not chosen a young girl, but THE young girl. And Jade, Mademoiselle, symbolizes hope! "
Awards
Stolen Kisses was voted the best film of 1968 by critics and with awards ( Louis Delluc Prize , Grand prix du cinéma français ). It is considered to be one of the most formative contributions to French film art; the second volume on the French film history Le Cinéma français by Jacques Siclier is called: "De" Baisers volés "à" Cyrano de Bergerac ", 1968-1990."
nomination
- The movie Stolen Kisses was nominated in 1969 at both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards as a French entry in the category of Best Foreign Language Film .
winner
- Grand prix du cinéma français
- Louis Delluc Prize
- Prix Méliès
- Prix Fémina Belge
- Prize of the British Film Institute
- Prize of the Hollywood Foreign Association
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Antoine Doinel | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Christine Darbon | Claude Jade | Almut Eggert |
| Lucien Darbon | Daniel Ceccaldi | Horst Niendorf |
| Madame Darbon | Claire Duhamel | Inge Estate |
| Fabienne Tabard | Delphine Seyrig | Beate Hasenau |
| Georges Tabard | Michael Lonsdale | Edgar Ott |
| Julien | Paul Pavel | Herbert Stass |
| Monsieur Blady | André Falcon | Heinz Petruo |
| Monsieur Shapiro | Roger Trapp | Alexander Welbat |
| Admirer | Serge Rousseau | Christian Rode |
Web links
- Stolen Kisses in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Stolen kisses in the German dubbing file
- Background to the film "Stolen Kisses"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robbed kisses. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 223/1969
- ↑ Robbed kisses. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on April 2, 2020 .