Love on the Run
By April 28, 2003
While making Love on the Run, François Truffaut knew that it would be the end of the Antoine Doinel cycle. He also wanted the film to be the cycle’s recapitulation. Love on the Read more »
- France
- 1979
- 95 minutes
- Color
- 1.66:1
- French
- Spine #188
SYNOPSIS: Antoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying moderate success as a novelist, and clinging to his romantic fantasies. The newly single Doinel finds a new object of his affections in Sabine, a record store salesgirl whom he pursues with the fervid belief that without love, one is nothing. Along the way, he renews his acquaintance with previous loves and confronts his own chaotic past. In Love on the Run, Antoine Doinel is still in love and because he’s still in love, he’s still alive.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Antoine Doinel | Jean-Pierre Léaud |
| Colette | Marie-France Pisier |
| Christine Doinel | Claude Jade |
| Liliane | Dani |
| Monsieur Lucien | Julien Bertheau |
| Colette's mother | Rosy Varte |
| Xavier | Daniel Mesguich |
| Sabine | Dorothée |
Credits
| Director | François Truffaut |
| Screenplay | François Truffaut, Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman and Marie-France Pisier |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros, Florent Bazin and Emilia Pakull-Latorre |
| Art direction | Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko, Pierre Gompertz and Jean-Louis Povéda |
| Music | Georges Delerue |
| Editing | Martine Barraqué, Jean Gargonne and Corinne Lapassade |
Disc Features
- New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
- Rare television interview excerpt of Truffaut and actress/co-writer Marie-France Pisier discussing their working styles and their feelings about Love on the Run
- Excerpt from the 1980 TV show Cinescope in which Truffaut addresses his misgivings about his finale to the Doinel series, and illuminates his feelings about Jean-Pierre Léaud and Antoine Doinel
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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