Baisers volés
(Stolen Kisses)

France (1968): Drama/Romance/Comedy

This episodic romantic comedy is the third installment in François Truffaut's "Antoine Doinel" series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959 and continued with Love at 20 (L'Amour à vingt ans) in 1962. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an excellent view of the Sacré-Coeur. He meets up with his sweetheart, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade, making her film debut), and joins her and her parents for dinner (Daniel Ceccaldi and Claire Duhamel). With the help of Christine's father, he gets a job as a hotel clerk but quickly gets fired after he unwittingly aids a private detective (Harry-Max). After running into the detective at a coffee shop, Antonie then falls into a job at the Blady Detective Agency, assisting with the investigation of a magician. He is then assigned to the case of neurotic Georges Tabard (Michael Lonsdale), and ends up working in the stock room of his shoe store. After Antoine has coffee with Tabard's beautiful and intelligent wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), she inevitably tries to seduce him. He later meets Christine in a park and proposes to her, taking the pair into the next film: Bed and Board (Domicile conjugal) (1970). One of the lightest entries in the series, Stolen Kisses was ironically filmed during a turbulent political time in France. (Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide)

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