1968 · drama · comedy · romance
Stolen Kisses
Directed by François Truffaut1h 30m1968
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.
Our read: Stolen Kisses (1968) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- gentle
- intimate
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