The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Marie-France Pisier

Claude Jade

Dani

Dorothée

Daniel Mesguich

Julien Bertheau

Marie Henriau

Julien Dubois

Jean-Pierre Ducos

Rosy Varte

Pierre Dios

Alain Ollivier

Monique Dury

Emmanuel Clot

Christian Lentretien

Roland Thénot

Alexandre Janssen

Chantal Zaugg

Richard Berry

Richard Kanayan

Laurent Voulzy

Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

François Truffaut

Martine Barraqué

Georges Delerue

Néstor Almendros

Alain Souchon

Jacques Maumont

Geneviève Lefebvre

Thi-Loan Nguyen

Jean Aurel

Gérard Bougeant

Emilio Pacull

Christine Pellé

Corinne Lapassade

Josiane Couëdel

Suzanne Schiffman

Florent Bazin

Nathalie Seaver

Pierre Gompertz

Jacques Frejabue

Michel Leclerq

Jean-Louis Povéda

Charlie Freess

Dominique Le Rigoleur

Marcel Berbert

Serge Valézy

Jean-Claude Gasché

Jean Gargonne

Michel Grimaud

Michel Laurent

Romance

Drama

Comedy

L'Amour en fuite

Les Films du Carrosse

France

Godawful opening and closing credits song apart, this final entry into the Antoine Doinel Saga is an enjoyable experience. Fairly briskly paced during the first twenty minutes or so, the film later sinks into a series of unnecessarily lengthy flashbacks, filmed in various aspect ratios.
Jean-Pierre Leaud is his usual charming self and the main reason to watch 'Love on the Run'. One only wishes Truffaut hadn't cannibalized his earlier works to beef up the film's running time.

CinemaSerf

By now, we know that "Antoine Doinel" (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a bit of a scoundrel and the first few scenes here illustrate that to a T! The ink is barely dry on his divorce from "Christine" (Claude Jade), when he is leaving new gal "Sabine" (Dorothée) to meet up with their son "Alphonse". This behaviour rather epitomises the problem for "Sabine" who yearns for just a little more commitment from her flaky boyfriend. He, on the other hand, is continuing to juggle the plates to nobody's particular satisfaction and that's depicted in this entertainingly stitched together drama using a series of flashbacks and contemporaneous storylines that only become more complex when he runs into his original infatuation "Colette" (Marie-France Pisier) - and him without a train ticket, too! For "Antoine" it's all a maelstrom of emotions that surround and immerse him, frequently leaving him flailing, but who might make him happy? Whom might he actually make happy if he stops being selfish long enough? Could he ever be that selfless? There's a fine chemistry here between Léaud and both Pisier and Dorothée as the comedy veers perilously close to slapstick at times, but it does stay just the on right side as his character raises laughs of both empathy and shame as his escapades see his life unravel before us. Truffaut keeps it moving along quickly and there's some observational wit amidst a script that quite poignantly sums up a man I reckon it'd be better not to know - especially if you're a woman.

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Love on the Run

Criterion Trailer 188: Love on the Run