Synopsis
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, Bed and Board plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, Bed and Board is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Cast
| Antoine Doinel | Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Christine Doinel | Claude Jade |
| Kyoko | Madamoiselle Hiroko |
| Monique | Barbara Laage |
| Ginette | Danièle Girard |
| Madame Darbon | Claire Duhamel |
| Monsieur Darbon | Daniel Ceccaldi |
| The tenor | Daniel Boulanger |
| The tenor's wife | Silvana Blasi |
Credits
| Director | François Truffaut |
| Screenplay | François Truffaut, Bernard Revon and Claude de Givray |
| Music | Antoine Duhamel |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros |
| Camera operator | Emmanuel Machuel |
| Editing | Agnès Guillemot |
| Assistant editor | Yann Dedet and Martine Kalfon |
| Producer | Marcel Berbert |
| Assistant director | Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-François Stevenin |
| Sound | René Levert |
Disc Features
- New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
- Rare behind-the-scenes footage with Truffaut at work on the Bed and Board set, and being interviewed along with actress Claude Jade
- Excerpt from the 1970 TV program Cinéastes de notre temps: François Truffaut, dix ans dix films, in which Truffaut and co-writer Bernard Revon reveal their methods for generating scripts and developing ideas
- Rare television interview with Jean-Pierre Léaud discussing his feelings about Truffaut and Antoine Doinel, and his thoughts about “ending” the series
- Excerpt from the 1972 documentary Approches du cinéma: François Truffaut ou la nouvelle vague, in which Truffaut addresses the complexities of Antoine Doinel
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
From the Current
Bed and Board
by Apr 28, 2003“I see life as very hard; I believe one should have a very simple, very crude and very strong moral system…. This is why there can’t be any direct violence in my films. Already in The 400 Blows, Antoine is a child who never rebels openly. His moral system is more subtle . . .
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