Antoine and Colette

Antoine and Colette (1962)

Antoine and Colette is the second film--a short--in Francois Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The film was made for the anthology collection, L'Amour a Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty), which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.

Antoine Doinel--and Jean-Pierre Leaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films--made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, Le Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows). Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influtential outpouring of work from young French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and