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Stolen Kisses (French: Baisers volés) is a 1968 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig and Claude Jade. It continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in The 400 Blows (1959) and the short film Antoine and Colette (1962). In this film, Antoine begins his relationship with Christine Darbon, which is depicted further in the last two films in the series, Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).

Stolen Kisses
Theatrical release poster
French	Baisers volés
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 Delphine Seyrig Claude Jade Michael Lonsdale Harry-Max André Falcon Daniel Ceccaldi
Cinematography	Denys Clerval
Edited by	Agnès Guillemot
Music by	Antoine Duhamel
Production companies	Les Films du Carrosse Les Productions Artistes Associés
Distributed by	Les Artistes Associés
Release dates	14 August 1968 (1968-08-14) (Avignon Film Festival) 4 September 1968 (1968-09-04) (France)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$350,000[1]
Box office	$1.5 million[1] 1,156,101 admissions (France)[2]

The original French title of the film comes from a line in Charles Trenet's song "Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?" which is also used as the film's signature tune. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3]

The film begins with a pan onto the locked gates of the Cinémathèque Française, then based at the Palais de Chaillot. On the gates there is a sign 'Relache' ('Closed'). This is Truffaut's reference to the Affaire Langlois when the head of the Cinémathèque had been fired by the French government. He was eventually reinstated after filmmakers such as Truffaut used all their wiles to foment protest.

Plot

There are many continuations from The 400 Blows; discharged from the army as unfit, Antoine Doinel seeks out his sweetheart, violinist Christine Darbon. He has written to her voluminously (but, she says, not always nicely) while in the military. Their relationship is tentative and unresolved. Christine is away skiing with friends when Antoine arrives, and her parents must entertain him themselves, though glad to see him. After she learns that Antoine has returned from military service, Christine goes to greet him at his new job as a hotel night clerk. It is a promising sign that perhaps this time, the romance will turn out happily for Antoine. He is, however, quickly fired from the hotel job. Counting the army, Antoine loses three jobs in the film, and is clearly destined to lose a fourth, all symbolic of his general difficulty with finding his identity and "fitting in".

Later, Christine attempts to guess Antoine's third job, amusingly tossing out guesses like sheriff or water taster. Finally, his job as a private detective is revealed. Throughout the film, Antoine works to maintain the job, working a case that requires him to pose as a shoe store stock boy. The job separates Antoine from his relationship with Christine. Soon, he falls for his employer's attractive (and older) wife, who willingly seduces him. He quarrels with Christine, saying he has never "admired" her. Fired from the detective agency, by the film's end, Antoine has become a TV repairman. He still avoids Christine, but she wins him back by deliberately (and simply) disabling her TV, then calling his company for repairs while her parents are away. The company sends Antoine, who is once again bumbling and inept, trying for hours to fix a TV with just one missing tube. Morning finds the two of them in bed together.

The film's final scene shows the newly engaged Antoine and Christine, strolling in the park. A strange man who has trailed Christine for days approaches the couple and declares his love for Christine. He describes his love as "permanent" and unlike the "temporary" love of "temporary people". When he walks away, Christine presumes that the man is insane. Antoine, recognising similarities in much of his own previous behaviour, admits, "He must be".

Cast

References to other Truffaut films

• Early in the film, Doinel can be seen reading a French translation of the 1947 William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) novel Waltz into Darkness, the source of Truffaut's next film, Mississippi Mermaid.
• In the first scene, Doinel reads Le Lys dans la vallée (The Lily in the Valley). It is another of Balzac's books.
• The character Colette Tazzi and her husband Albert make a brief cameo appearance. She chides Doinel for not contacting her, saying he did not used to be "afraid of the telephone". This is a reference to the plot of the 1962 Antoine and Colette.

Critical response

Stolen Kisses was well-reviewed by critics all over the world. In an enthusiastic review for The New York Times (4 March 1969), Vincent Canby commented:[5]

With what can only be described as cinematic grace, Truffaut's point of view slips in and out of Antoine so that something that on the surface looks like a conventional movie eventually becomes as fully and carefully populated as a Balzac novel. There is not a silly or superfluous incident, character, or camera angle in the movie. Truffaut is the star of the film, always in control, whether the movie is ranging into the area of slapstick, lyrical romance or touching lightly on De Gaulle's France (a student demonstration on the TV screen). His love of old movies is reflected in plot devices (overheard conversations), incidental action (two children walking out of the shoe store wearing Laurel and Hardy masks), and in the score, which takes Charles Trenet's 1943 song Que reste-t-il de nos amours (known in an English-language version as "I Wish You Love") and turns it into a joyous motif.

Danny Peary called it "François Truffaut's witty, sad, insightful meditation on Love, encompassing passion, courtship, confusion, conflict, romance, jealousy, disloyalty, dishonesty, sex, conquest, and commitment (and second thoughts)."[6]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
1970	NBR Awards	Top Foreign Language Films	Stolen Kisses	Won
	National Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Film	Stolen Kisses	Nominated
		Best Director	François Truffaut	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Delphine Seyrig	Won
1969	Academy Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Stolen Kisses	Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Foreign Language Film	Stolen Kisses	Nominated
	French Syndicate of Cinema Critics	Prix Méliès	Stolen Kisses	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Delphine Seyrig	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Bernard Revon, Claude de Givray, François Truffaut	Nominated
1968	Cahiers du cinéma	Annual Top 10 List	François Truffaut	8th
	Prix Louis Delluc	Best Film	Stolen Kisses	Won

See also

• List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Stolen Kisses at IMDb
• Stolen Kisses at AllMovie
• Stolen Kisses at Rotten Tomatoes
• Stolen Kisses – an essay by Andrew Sarris at The Criterion Collection

На других языках

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- [en] Stolen Kisses

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[ru] Украденные поцелуи

«Украденные поцелуи» (фр. Baisers volés) — французский кинофильм 1968 года, грустная любовная кинокомедия с Клод Жад и Жан-Пьером Лео.

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