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Bed & Board (1970)
"Domicile conjugal" (original title)

GP  -  Comedy | Drama  -  9 September 1970 (France)
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Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives ... See full summary »

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Claude Jade ...
Hiroko Berghauer ...
Kyoko (as Mademoiselle Hiroko)
Barbara Laage ...
Monique, la secrétaire
Danièle Girard ...
Ginette, la serveuse
Daniel Ceccaldi ...
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel ...
Madame Darbon
Daniel Boulanger ...
Le voisin ténor
Silvana Blasi ...
Silvana, la femme du ténor
Pierre Maguelon ...
L'ami de Césarin
Jacques Jouanneau ...
Césarin
Claude Véga ...
Le pseudo étrangleur
Jacques Rispal ...
Monsieur Desbois
Jacques Robiolles ...
Jacques
Pierre Fabre ...
L'employé de bureau ricaneur
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Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Trivia

When Claude Véga appears, he impersonates Delphine Seyrig and quotes a line from Last Year at Marienbad. He also quotes from a line that Delphine Seyrig spoke in the previous Antoine Doinel film, Stolen Kisses. See more »

Quotes

Antoine Doinel: You're my sister, you're my daughter, you're my mother.
Christine Doinel: I would have liked to be your wife.
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Antoine Doinel's good life in a funny and romantic film
6 February 2011 | by (São Paulo, Brazil) – See all my reviews

And who could imagine that Antoine Doinel, the misunderstood and agitated character played by Jean-Pierre Léaud in "The 400 Blows" would succeed it in life? Now he's married with Christine (Claude Jade), has a strange work, first selling flowers, then controlling little boats by remote control, father of a pretty boy and life goes on with some up's and down's after a little romance with a Japanese girl. Doinel's story in "Domicile Conjugal" ("Bed & Board") is presented as a sweet and funny tale barely remembering the confuse boy of the film released in 1959. But there are moments when the audience is reminded of the young Antoine and his problems with his parents and problems with school (when he decides that his son will be a writer and that he won't have lessons at school, cause of many of the problems of Doniel).

Truffaut's makes his most funniest film here, a humor that is not created with absurd or a slapstick comedy but it is simply a day-by-day of Doniel's presented with charm, humor, originality in memorable moments (Doniel's strange friend who always asks money of him saying that he'll pay in double; or Doniel's breaking the wall of his apartment to make a room for his child; and some conversations between the couple about male nudity and the breasts of Christine, which according to Antoine are different to each other). It takes common and ordinary situations of everyone's lives and makes of it something beautiful, delightful and pleasant to see. And the two main actors are marvelous on screen, have a electrifying chemistry and brilliant performances.

A perfect work and a movie of the highest quality, "Bed & Board" is one of those films that you wanna watch it more than just one time. 10/10


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