L'amour à vingt ans (1962)

Directors:

Shintarô Ishihara
Marcel Ophüls

Writers:

Shintarô Ishihara (writer)
Marcel Ophüls (writer)

Release Date:

6 February 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Anthology

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Marie-France Pisier	...	Colette (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Patrick Auffay	...	René (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Rosy Varte	...	La mère de Colette (segment "Antoine et Colette")
François Darbon	...	Le beau-père de Colette (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Jean-François Adam	...	Albert Tazzi (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Pierre Schaeffer	...	Himself (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Cristina Gaioni	...	Christina (as Christina Gajoni)
Geronimo Meynier	...	Leonardo
Eleonora Rossi Drago	...	Valentina
Nami Tamura	...	Fukimo
Koji Furuhata	...	Hiroshi
Barbara Frey	...	Ursula
Christian Doermer	...	Tonio
Vera Tschechowa

Also Known As:

Hatachi no koi (Japan)
L'amore a vent'anni (Italy)
Liebe mit zwanzig (West Germany)
Love at Twenty (USA)
Milosc dwudziestolatkow (Poland)

Runtime:

France:120 min | USA:110 min | Argentina:120 min

Country:

France | Italy | West Germany | Poland | Japan

Language:

French | Polish | Japanese | Italian | German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | UK:X

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Beta Film

Trivia:

In the segment "Antoine et Colette": on the wall of Antoine's second flat there is a poster for Les quatre cents coups (1959), which also starred Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Camping Cosmos (1996)

Be aware--an abbreviated version of this movie is out there!

I have been looking for a copy of Stolen Kisses for some time, and so I was glad I finally found it--or thought I'd found it. While my sole reason for wanting to see it was to see the Truffaut segment featuring the character "Antoine Doinel", I was VERY surprised to see a DVD with ONLY this 30 minute portion from the movie on it--along with a Truffaut short, Les Mistons! What about the segments from Love At Twenty by Ophuls and the other directors? They were nowhere to be seen on the FOX/Lorber DVD! Quel dommage!

Now, in regard to the Antoine Doinel segment, I was VERY glad I saw it, as it was the most interesting and endearing I ever saw the character. Doinel appeared in several other Truffaut full-length films and this small segment was the final one I needed to see to complete them. It was lighter in tone and "cute" compared to the other incarnations--much lighter than 400 blows or the other films that have a more wistful edge to them. You see a hopeful Doinel just reaching adulthood--a decent guy--just REALLY awkward with the ladies.