L'Amour en Fuite (1979) 9/9

François Truffaut's LOVE ON THE RUN finds the director's alter ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), in his mid-30s. Relatively content with his young, beautiful lover, Sabine (Dorothée), Antoine still runs from woman to woman, looking to fill the gap in his life--a void that exists because of his inability to commit in relationships and because of his mother's recent death. As Antoine gains self-awareness, slowly comprehending the reasons for his emptiness, he reflects back on his various relationships. These experiences are related in part through black-and-white flashbacks dictated by the pages of his semiautobiographical book, LES SALADES DE L'AMOUR, and also in his current life as Antoine actively seeks out people and places from his past and attempts to reinvent them in the present. This process involves his first love, Collette (Marie-France Pisier); his second love, Christine (Claude Jade), who eventually became his wife and birthed his son, Alfonse; and his wife's violin student, Liliane (Dani). With a mixture of frank dialogues about fidelity, love, and scholarship (Antoine works in a book printing house to which he is, occasionally, quite committed) and brilliant camerawork that combines deliberate framing--panes of glass, windows, mirrors, doorways, and gates that communicate the way Antoine distances himself from things--with smooth transitions to flashbacks, future events, and dream sequences, the viewer gets a direct line into Antoine's subconscious. In this manner of reflecting back and then inching forward chapter by chapter, LOVE ON THE RUN concludes the five-film Antoine Doinel saga in the same playfully endearing fashion that is signature of Truffaut's entire body of work.

Director/Screenwriter/Producer: François Truffaut
Screenwriters: Jean Aurel, Marie-France Pisier, Suzanne Schiffman
Cinematographer: Néstor Almendros
Composer: Georges Delerue

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich, Dani, Rosy Varte, Julien Bertheau, Marie Henriau, Jean-Pierre Ducos, Pierre Dios

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078771/

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[RonAlmeida]

I like Truffaut's idea of using the same actors in the whole series that makes it possible to reuse parts of older films in flash backs.

[TitanYa315]

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[9mia9]

regretably, the worst antoine doinel movie. "l'amour en fuite" is a little bit tacky, sometimes feels like a cheap melodrama. it's great to see the same actors though.

[gwaladrielle]

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[shahoney]

Is Albert the stalker guy from Stolen Kisses? I remember him from Love At Twenty, but I think he was also in Stolen Kisses, was he not?

[perkyporkpie]

I hadn't seen this in in years-it still knocks the socks of most stuff. Beautifully observed. 

[A34Z]

Thank you very much for the antoine doinel films

[fabian100e]

Je corrige le meilleur de la serie Antoine Doinel, remarquable!!

[fabian100e]

Le meilleur de Francois Truffaut

[milosc9]

i had my doubts about this movie, but i love how everything ties up in the end. especially that last flashback of bb antoine

[kamojapan]

Thank you for posting those Truffau movie.I really enjoyed them. Thanks again!!

[XYZTanya]

now ive watched all movies about Antoine:))) its brilliant but in a way sad.