Love on the Run

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.

François Truffaut
France
1979
95 minutes
Color
1.66:1
French
Spine #188

Special 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

Available In

Collector's Set

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

DVD Box Set

5 Discs

$79.96

Out Of Print

Special 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

Cast & Credits

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Antoine Doinel
Marie-France Pisier: Colette
Claude Jade: Christine Doinel
Dani: Liliane
Julien Bertheau: Monsieur Lucien
Rosy Varte: Colette's mother
Daniel Mesguich: Xavier
Dorothée: Sabine

Credits

Director: François Truffaut
Screenplay: François Truffaut
Screenplay: Jean Aurel
Screenplay: Suzanne Schiffman
Screenplay: Marie-France Pisier
Cinematography: Nestor Almendros
Cinematography: Florent Bazin
Cinematography: Emilia Pakull-Latorre
Art direction: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
Art direction: Pierre Gompertz
Art direction: Jean-Louis Povéda
Music: Georges Delerue
Editing: Martine Barraqué
Editing: Jean Gargonne
Editing: Corinne Lapassade

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Georges Delerue

Composer

Composer Georges Delerue, once named “the Mozart of cinema” by the French newspaper Le Figaro, wrote more than 350 film and television scores, along with pop songs, ballads, and orchestral pieces. In the course of his work with such titans of cinema as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Mike Nichols, and Oliver Stone, Delerue, a native of Roubaix, France, created some of the most evocative film music of all time. Although he was trained in metallurgy, and began his working life in a metal factory, his lineage was musical (grandfather a choral singer, mother a pianist), and he found himself drawn in that direction, first studying the clarinet and eventually beginning to compose. After doing some scoring for television and short films (including Agnès Varda’s early short L’opéra mouffe, which is available on Criterion’s edition of Cléo from 5 to 7), Delerue was approached by Resnais and Truffaut to write the themes to Hiroshima mon amour and Shoot the Piano Player, two works at the forefront of the French New Wave movement. The scores for which he is now best known followed close on their heels: his energetic, lovely melody for Jules and Jim and his grand, swoony, undulating theme for Contempt—the latter appropriated years later by Martin Scorsese for his 1995 drama Casino. Delerue’s stature grew, thanks to scores for such films as The Two of Us and King of Hearts, and eventually he would not only win an Oscar (for 1979’s A Little Romance) and three Césars in a row (for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Love on the Run, and The Last Metro) but also be named a Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France’s highest cultural honors. He came to Hollywood in the eighties and wrote music for Platoon, Beaches, and Steel Magnolias, among others. Delerue died in 1992.