... you can learn from:
Love on the Run (1979)
Liliane: You can't make everyone elsepay for your rotten childhood.
Not to bring up my birthday yet again (oh who am I kidding -- I'll bring it up in every post today if I can manage it) but that quote from this movie really feels aimed straight at me today. Sigh, fine! Fine, Francois Truffaut. I'll try to keep that in mind. Anyway as foretold back in April Criterion's 4K upgrade of their box-set of Truffaut's five Antoine Doinel movies arrives today! This is very exciting for me personally because I've always wanted to see all of these but only ever seen The 400 Blows. When Luca Guadagnino was talking up doing a series of movies about Timothee Chalamet's character Elio in Call Me By Your Name he brought up this series every time -- despite the entire Armie situation I still hold out hope that could happen. Elio can exist without Oliver! Okay okay I'll set that aside for the moment. Who's seen all of these? Anybody?
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I've seen the first two for sure. I forget if I've seen the third (That's 'Bed and Board'? If so, no.). It's sad that Truffaut didn't live longer.
Oh, I adooooore this series. Antoine is one of fiction's great characters. Certain films are "better" than others, but the whole practice of the films as a desire for François to collaborate with Jean-Pierre, to reflect/blend their stories and lives is so special and inspiring to me. There are recent documentaries on François and Jean-Pierre that expanded then cemented my forever-love for this series: François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay and Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema. I hiiiighly recommend them both!
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