Stolen Kisses

R

Released Mar 3, 1969

1 hr. 30 min.

Comedy

Drama

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97%

29 Reviews

Tomatometer

89%

5,000+ Ratings

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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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Critics Consensus

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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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

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The H

Smart funny, but goes different directions

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/01/23

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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

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Audience Member

Truffaut keeps its strong grip over the course of Antoine Doinel's life, revealing new facets of the character that possess an amusing universality.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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chris w

8 8 8 9 10 8 9 9 9 9 = 87 2020/01/17 Greatest theme song by far for director Truffaut in his works. Following on from the previous chapter of the story of Antoine Doinel, Stolen Kisses combines more elements of ingenuity than the previous films, for example, the plot is much more dramatic and the characters encounter more and more incidents to push forwards the narrative of SK. Most important of all, the sound is remarkably witty and precise: the "bad-guy" sound of the "detective" music engender a feeling of conspiracy for audience and the sound leads us to an unexpected end.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Another interesting Truffaut film. Comedy, Romance, suspense and teenage angst all stitched together to create one heck of a fun narrative. It's not as deep as 400 blows. Antoine's motives remain unclear throughout the movie.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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François Truffaut

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

Antoine Doinel

Delphine Seyrig

Fabienne Tabard

Michaël Lonsdale

Georges Tabard

Claude Jade

Christine Darbon

Daniel Ceccaldi

Monsieur Darbon

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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
Sound Mix: Mono