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Stolen Kisses

R Released Mar 3, 1969 1h 30m Comedy Drama List
97% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 89% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's (Claude Jade) father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
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Stolen Kisses is a fine feature follow-up to The 400 Blows, transforming Antoine Doinel into a sympathetic, silly, and romantic figure that carries to the series' end.

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Joe Morgenstern Newsweek By almost almost any standards but those he has already set, François Truffaut has an enormous new success in Stolen Kisses. It's certainly an entertaining movie... By no stretch of any romantic's imagination, though, is Stolen Kisses a great film. Jul 6, 2022 Full Review Ben Kern Minneapolis Star Tribune Francois Truffaut has come out with a comedy, sometimes very funny, sometimes relevant to youthful problems, and always balanced between emotional extremes by Gallic worldliness. Mar 2, 2022 Full Review Gavin Millar Sight & Sound This beautifully conceived and brilliantly acted film confirms Truffauts high place in the French humanist tradition. He can stand the comparison with Renoir. Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Giles M. Fowler Kansas City Star Like the age it surveys, the picture is by turns playful, tense, lovely and breathlessly sensitive to details of mood and manner. Sep 2, 2020 Full Review Paul Schrader Los Angeles Free Press Francoise Truffaut's Stolen Kisses is so good, so impeccably crafted, that it catches us by surprise. Jan 24, 2020 Full Review Penelope Houston The Spectator The film wears its charm on its sleeve, which is probably as good a place as any to wear it: tender, hilarious, gracefully reticent. Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Alexsander F Simplesmente fantástico da fotografia até o roteiro um tanto quanto pitoresco, Truffaut é para se assistir em estado de graça assim como é Godard. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/08/24 Full Review Bulgantamir B When I watched it again, I knew it was a good movie Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/04/24 Full Review Bahad j The idea behind this movie moved me a lot, but it was a movie with really satisfying expectations Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/03/24 Full Review harwee h Not at the level of 400 Blows but its Truffaut so there's that. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/22/23 Full Review The H Smart funny, but goes different directions Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/23 Full Review Audience Member More French farce than masterpiece but a nice afternoon's viewing. It's the sort of film that makes you wish you were in the Paris of the late 60's where the joire de vivre, cafes, politics and so on, were cool, involved but safe. Jobs plentiful, youths can flit from one to another, one hill to another and after sowing the wild oats settle down with a poppet who'll forgive the inevitable affairs in later films. It feels like a nice tourist piece for the Francophile and a statement of character for a Parisian but I struggle to see what the plaudits see. Nice. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's (Claude Jade) father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Director
François Truffaut
Producer
Marcel Berbert
Screenwriter
François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon
Distributor
Criterion Collection, Lopert Pictures Corp.
Production Co
Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 3, 1969, Wide
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 1, 2014
Runtime
1h 30m
Sound Mix
Mono