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Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi ... see more see more... , Claire Duhamel , Jean-François Adam , Martine Brochard , Robert Cambourakis , Francois Darbon , Jacques Delord , André Falcon , Martine Ferriere , Catherine Lutz , Harry Max , Marcel Mercier , Joseph Merieau , Paul Pavel , Christine Pellé , Jacques Rispal , Jacques Robiolles , Serge Rousseau , Simono , Roger Trapp , Marie-France Pisier , Michael Lonsdale

The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is disc... read more read more...harged 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 (Michel 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. One of the lightest entries in the series, Stolen Kisses was ironically filmed during a turbulent political time in France. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: François Truffaut

Release Date: January 1, 1968

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DVD Release Date: August 24, 1999

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  • May 15, 2009
    After following Antoine Doinel as a young boy in Les quatre cents coups and his désamours in L'amour à vingt ans, in Baisers Volés we see the life and lovers of an "akward" young man.
    Then it comes the great Domicile Conjugal where Antoine and Christine are married and where we... read more see a kiss scene from Baiser Volés, and L'amour en fuite, the last film of this serie.

    You don't need to watch these films in order. Actually, it could be interesting to begin from the end and then back to the first one, to understand Antoine's life.




  • September 2, 2008
    Truffaut homages Henri Langlois, Laurel and Hardy. Hitchcock and Balzac, and brings back his alter ego, Antoine Doinel. Now at the doors of adulthood, he was kicked out from the army, and struggles to find a job, first as a night porter, shoe seller, tv repairing engineer and eve... read moren as a private eye for a detective agency. But don't get confused, this is a pleasant, charming comedy, where all the sorrow and rebelliousness of his childhood is gone for good, and now his only concern is to win the heart of the girl he likes.
    Nostalgic stroll through the beautiful Paris, in company of a magnificent auteur who always knew how to gather the sweetest moments of life into a film; Jean-Pierre Léaud's likeable absent-mindedness; Claude Jade's natural beauty; and Charles Trenet's sweetest ballad.
  • December 27, 2007
    Hilarious and romantic. Jean-Pierre Leaud IS Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel...
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    January 5, 2010
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    Francois Truffaut's third Antoine Doinel film has a happenstance feel of just dropping in to see what's new with our boy. He's freshly bounced out of the military, and is casually skipping from mediocre job to mediocre job without success. Meanwhile, he courts a past girlfriend, ... read morethe stunningly photogenic Claude Jade.

    The light, episodic story doesn't have much of a point, and this frustrated me for awhile. But eventually, the film's romantic charm won me over. There are some surprisingly funny moments, and the gentle resolution surely influenced Woody Allen.
  • February 6, 2008
    The third in Traffaut's semi-autobiographical series following the life of Antoine Dionel. The first time the character hit the screens was in the 1959 masterpiece The 400 Blows. Stolen Kisses sees Antoine now as a young man and follows him in his journey into adulthood. This doe... read mores not compare to The...(read more) 400 Blows, but is still an entertaining and thoughtful piece of cinema. There are some lovely scenes in this film such as the breakfast scene with Antione and Christine, and also some rather comedic scenes.
    Overall, not as though provoking as The 400 Blows but highly watchable and entertaining.
  • April 12, 2007
    One of the greatest lines in cinema history: "You can hang up now. Mr. Henri is dead." That scene alone--not to mention the several other Truffaut touches throughout--are reason enough to see and treasure this film.
  • May 31, 2011
    Truffaut's second best film of his career. Which just happens to be the second feature in the infamous Doinel series.
  • November 14, 2009
    A superb film, one of Francois Truffaut's very best and the second best in the Antoine series. (I think The 400 Blows is his best). Good score, excellent writing and a fine performance from Jean-Pierre Leaud.
  • August 6, 2007
    The character of Antoine peaks in this film and Truffaut's direction has never been more aesthetically pleasing.
  • July 10, 2007
    I usually hate French New Wave. Yet this film? Class. Major class. The performances, personality of the picture, skillful direction and writing, it all works. I seriously got into it.

Critic Reviews


Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

A movie so full of love that to define it may make it sound like a religious experience, which, of course, it is -- but in a wonderfully unorthodox, cockeyed way. Full Review

Jay Antani
September 3, 2010
Jay Antani, Cinema Writer

Typically light fare from the master of French Lite Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
November 15, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

While Truffaut was fiddling with this trifle, the streets of Paris were burning with a student riot in May 1968. Full Review

Gabe Leibowitz
April 13, 2004
Gabe Leibowitz, eCinemaCenter.com

A poignant portrait of sop-free love.

James Kendrick
May 30, 2003
James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk

Despite some of the broadness of the comedy (one of the funniest scenes being Antoine's clearly inept attempt to tail a woman on the street), the film is tempered throughout by a series of lessons Ant... Full Review

Marjorie Baumgarten
March 10, 2003
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

Some regard the film as Truffaut's finest work. Full Review

John A. Nesbit
September 26, 2002
John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews

Stolen Kisses certainly has charm, and is more accessible to mainstream audiences than the previous Antoine films. Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
March 4, 2002
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

This amusing and entertaining French film is a valentine to love and the emotions it arouses. Full Review

Bob Wake
January 1, 2000
Bob Wake, culturevulture.net

The gentle tone of Stolen Kisses seems keyed to Jean-Pierre Léaud's unassuming poignancy in the role of Antoine Doinel. His relaxed improvisatory manner in front of the camera remains as fresh today a... Full Review

March 26, 2009
Variety

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