Bed and Board (French: Domicile conjugal) is a 1970 French comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut, and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade. It is the fourth in Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses, depicting the married life of Antoine (Léaud) and Christine (Jade). Love on the Run finished the story in 1979.
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Directed by | François Truffaut |
Screenplay by | François Truffaut Claude de Givray Bernard Revon |
Based on | Characters by François Truffaut Marcel Moussy |
Produced by | François Truffaut Marcel Berbert |
Starring | Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Hiroko Berghauer Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel |
Cinematography | Nestor Almendros |
Edited by | Agnés Guillemot |
Music by | Antoine Duhamel |
Production companies | Les Films du Carrosse Valoria Films Fida Cinematografica |
Distributed by | Valoria Films (France) Fida Cinematografica (Italy) |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | 1,010,797 admissions (France)[1] |
Antoine and Christine have got married and are living in a pleasant apartment that her parents have found for them. In it she gives violin lessons, while he works in the courtyard dyeing carnations for flower shops. When his experiments with colouring agents go horribly wrong, he has to find other work. An American company hires him to demonstrate model boats to potential customers in a mock-up harbour. Christine has a baby boy, which she calls Ghislain but he registers as Alphonse. At work he meets a Japanese girl, who asks him for a meal in her apartment. An affair starts, which Christine becomes aware of when she finds little hidden love letters. Antoine is banished from the bedroom and eventually moves out to a hotel, while Christine makes a life for herself and the baby. Antoine, bored and restless in a pointless existence, keeps telephoning her and at the end she is probably ready to take him back.
John Simon wrote that Bed and Board "gives no offense, and no enlightenment".[3]
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1972 | NBR Awards | Top Foreign Language Films | Bed and Board | Won |
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