Antoine knows what he wants to do ... his problem is doing it.
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
- 7.3
- 1968
- Released
- 1h 30m
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade
Christine Darbon
Delphine Seyrig
Fabienne Tabard
Michael Lonsdale
Georges Tabard
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel
Madame Darbon
Harry-Max
Monsieur Henri
André Falcon
Monsieur Blady
Catherine Lutz
Catherine
Martine Ferrière
Head Saleswoman of the Shoe Store
Serge Rousseau
Guy Who Follows Christine
Paul Pavel
Julien
François Darbon
Chief Warrant Officer PicardLéon Elkenbaum
Dentist (uncredited)Madeleine Parard
Wicked Prostitute (uncredited)France Monteil
Kind Prostitute (uncredited)Carole Noe
Big Girl (uncredited)
Roger Trapp
Monsieur Shapiro (uncredited)
Albert Simono
Albani
Chantal Banlier
Shoe Store Clerk (uncredited)
Jacques Rispal
Monsieur Colin
Martine Brochard
Madame Colin (uncredited)Jacques Delord
Robert EspannetJean-François Adam
Albert Tazzi (uncredited)
Anik Belaubre
Concierge at the Brothel (uncredited)
Liza Braconnier
Sad Prostitute (uncredited)
Karine Jeantet
Shoe Merchant Saleswoman (uncredited)Marcel Mercier
Man at the Darbon Garage (uncredited)Joseph Mériau
Man at the Darbon Garage (uncredited)
Marie-France Pisier
Colette Tazzi (uncredited)Jacques Robiolles
TV Unemployed (uncredited)
Released
fr
$350,000.00
$1,500,000.00
- #hotel
- #hotel room
- #adultery
- #individual
- #secret love
- #army
- #lovesickness
- #paris, france
- #parent child relationship
- #students' movement
- #balzac
- #shyness
- #montmartre
- #detective
- #job-hopping
- #night watchman
- #repair
- #brothel
- #amateur detective
- #extramarital affair
- #eiffel tower, paris
- #may 68
Reviews
At times Jean-Pierre Léaud's "Doinel" character reminded me a little of Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" as he works his way through this engaging comedy about the lives and loves of a man whom, having just left the army, must adjust to civilian life. Initially, he lucks out as his girlfriend "Christine" (Claude Jade) manages to get her dad (Daniel Ceccaldi) to get him a job. Now a security guard he cert