Domicile conjugal (1970)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Writers:

François Truffaut (scenario and dialogue) and
Claude de Givray (scenario and dialogue) ...

Release Date:

9 September 1970 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers...

Plot Keywords:

Japanese | Violin | Flower | Serial Killer | Debt

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade	...	Christine Darbon Doinel
Hiroko Berghauer	...	Kyoko (as Mademoiselle Hiroko)
Barbara Laage	...	Monique
Danièle Girard	...	Ginette
Daniel Ceccaldi	...	Monsieur Darbon
Claire Duhamel	...	Madame Darbon
Daniel Boulanger	...	Ténor
Silvana Blasi	...	Silvana
Pierre Maguelon	...	Ami de Césarin
Jacques Jouanneau	...	Césarin
Claude Véga	...	L'étrangleur
Jacques Rispal	...	Monsieur Desbois
Jacques Robiolles	...	Cadger
Pierre Fabre	...	Le ricaneur

Also Known As:

Bed & Board (Canada: English title) (USA)
Bed and Board (UK)
Non drammatizziamo... è solo questione di corna! (Italy)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Les Films du Carrosse

Trivia:

When Claude Véga appears, he impersonates Delphine Seyrig and quotes a line from "L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad" ("Last Year At Marienbad"). He also quotes from a line that Delphine Seyrig spoke in the previous Antoine Doinel film, "Baisers Volees" ("Stolen Kisses").

Quotes:

Christine Doinel: Virgin at twenty. I was a living anachronism, a real creep!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

Eye Shadow

No #4 in the Antoine series, five films beginning with 400 Blows, Antoine, the dreamer, has got himself a fine young wife, his opposite really, prim and well mannered. Their romantic first year is a series of funny neighbors and comical whimsy. I learned how to die the color of flowers, more interesting than one would think. I learned about hurrying a wife along by throwing her coat and bag down a stairway. I learned that relationships go wrong when one gives in to lust. Hey, I knew that.

Jean-Pierre Leaud has a physical resemblance to Truffaut. These episodic films, the ones in color that I have seen remind one of a HBO mini-series. His autobiographical Doinel is from a broken family. In the 400 blows, a masterpiece really of the New French Cinema in the late 50's, we see the lonely kid grasping for understanding. In subsequent films, we see the young adult Doinel grasp at relationship and career. The next beautiful woman is always around the corner. In Bread and Board, the femme fatale is 70's Japanese Go Go Chick, Hiroko Berghauer. Notice the heavy eye make-up on the women that make them look like zombies.