For five times, over a period of twenty years, the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud portrayed the alter ego of the just as iconic French Nouvelle Vague director François Truffaut. As Antoine Doinel, he first appears in his breakthrough film, and key film of the innovative wave, LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (1959). Thereafter, four more films follow. In May and June, CINEA brings the entire Doinel series back to Flemish cinemas, in a digitally restored 4K version!
The 1944-born Léaud was chosen from a group of hundreds of children after a casting call by Truffaut in a newspaper – he was fourteen years old. A year later, he was carried on the audience's shoulders after their triumphant screening in Cannes. As Antoine, Léaud expressed Truffaut's not-so-loving youth in LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS. Until his tenth, his grandmother took care of him. When she died, his stepfather – who's family name he carries – thought it was high time he came home, but François' mother didn't want that.
After Doine fell in love in ANTOINE ET COLETTE (1962) and subsequently started a relationship with the brave Christine in BAISERS VOLÉS (1968), DOMICILE CONJUGAL (1970) shows their first marital years. Nine years later, they parted in L'AMOUR EN FUITE (1979), a mosaic film rich in nostalgia and reverie.
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