L'amour en fuite (1979)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Writers:

François Truffaut (scenario) &
Marie-France Pisier (scenario) ...

Release Date:

6 April 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Divorce | Female Nudity | Infidelity | Train

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Antoine Doinel
Marie-France Pisier	...	Colette Tazzi
Claude Jade	...	Christine Doinel
Dani	...	Liliane
Dorothée	...	Sabine Barnerias
Daniel Mesguich	...	Xavier Barnerias, le libraire
Julien Bertheau	...	Monsieur Lucien
Jean-Pierre Ducos	...	Avocat de Christine
Marie Henriau	...	Juge divorce
Rosy Varte	...	Mère de Colette
Pierre Dios	...	Maître Renard
Alain Ollivier	...	Juge Aix
Julien Dubois	...	Alphonse Doinel
Monique Dury	...	Madame Ida
Emmanuel Clot	...	Emmanuel, copain imprimeur

Also Known As:

Love on the Run (Canada: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Les Films du Carrosse

Trivia:

The title of Antoine Doinel's (Jean Pierre Leaud) book is "Les Salades de L'amour". In La nuit américaine (1973), a character summarizes Jean Pierre Leaud's character's love life as "Les salades de l'amour" and another follows up with, "That would make a good title of a book."

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Antoine Doinel runs towards the cab and enters in the left side while in the following scene he's on the right side.

Movie Connections:

References Perceval le Gallois (1978)

Soundtrack:

L'Amour en fuite

Recollections and Troubled Love Affairs

Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is having a love affair with the vinyl seller Colette Tazzi (Marie-France Pisier). After five years of a troubled marriage with separations, Antoine and Christine Doinel (Claude Jade) have a private audience with the judge (Marie Henriau) and conclude an amicable divorce process. His former sweetheart and presently lawyer Colette Tazzi (Marie-France Pisier) sees Antoine leaving the court and she goes to a bookstore to buy his autobiographical novel that was published a couple of years ago. When Antoine goes with Alphonse (Julien Dubois) to the train station for the travel vacation of his son, he sees Colette in another train and he jumps from the platform to the train and travels with her. They recall their adolescent love and disclose their sentimental relationships; but when Colette tells how she raises money for her self-support, Antoine is disappointed and seeks out Sabine.

"L'Amour en Fuite" is the conclusion of the sentimental saga of the character Antoine Doinel, the insecure alter ego of François Truffaut that began in "Les Quatre Cents Coups" and followed through "L'Amour à Vingt Ans", "Baisers Volés" and "Domicile Conjugal", inclusive with the use of scenes in the many flashbacks of these movies with his recollections and troubled love affairs. This character has an evolution from the needy fourteen years old boy rejected by his mother and his stepfather in the first movie. The lack of affection at home makes him a rebel, bad student, liar, reckless and a thief stealing objects and money at home in his adolescence. In the next movies, he grows-up, but with a fragile emotional structure and the viewer sees an unstable man incapable of having a steady relationship or commitment with the many beautiful women that he meets along his futile life. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "O Amor em Fuga" ("The Love on the Run")