L'amour en fuite (1979)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Writers:

François Truffaut (scenario) &
Marie-France Pisier (scenario) ...

Release Date:

6 April 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Divorce | Female Nudity | Infidelity | Train

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Antoine Doinel
Marie-France Pisier	...	Colette Tazzi
Claude Jade	...	Christine Doinel
Dani	...	Liliane
Dorothée	...	Sabine Barnerias
Daniel Mesguich	...	Xavier Barnerias, le libraire
Julien Bertheau	...	Monsieur Lucien
Jean-Pierre Ducos	...	Avocat de Christine
Marie Henriau	...	Juge divorce
Rosy Varte	...	Mère de Colette
Pierre Dios	...	Maître Renard
Alain Ollivier	...	Juge Aix
Julien Dubois	...	Alphonse Doinel
Monique Dury	...	Madame Ida
Emmanuel Clot	...	Emmanuel, copain imprimeur

Also Known As:

Love on the Run (Canada: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Les Films du Carrosse

Trivia:

The film features extensive flashbacks to the previous four films in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel cycle of films

Goofs:

Continuity: According to her grave, Antoine Doinel's Mother, Gilberte, died in 1971. According to the conversation Antoine has with her ex-lover five minutes before, she died in 1968 (while Antoine was in the army, in the beginning of "Baisers Volés")

Movie Connections:

Features Perceval le Gallois (1978)

Soundtrack:

L'Amour en fuite

Cool

I always find it hard to watch a french movie from the eighties -I am french though, and a real patriot, be sure of that- because it feels like I'm trapped in my childhood or something and I will have to go to school or..whatever. It is always painful. For instance, the girl playing 'SAbine' in L'Amour en fuite is 'Dorothée', a T.V. figure from when I was seven or so. She was awful, supposedly very mean to children -but her show was devoted to them, weird, uh?- and a lesbian. But let's go back to Truffaut's movie: I am a big fan of Jean-Pierre Léaud, and in this movie his character Antoine Doisnel is still the same selfish, ridiculously precious little dandy. But I still love him ! It is very funny that in the end he goes back to something that looked a lot -to me- like a sub- La Maman et la Putain (from Eustache). Torn apart between several lost loves and one that is young and not tragic... What will Antoine do? Flee, as usual? You will have to see the movie I guess ! At least for Souchon's cool interpretation of the song he composed for the movie. What a smart guy ! Now he can sell tons of records.