Love on the Run (1979 film)

Love on the Run
Original film poster
Directed by François Truffaut
Produced by Marcel Berbert
François Truffaut
Written by François Truffaut
Marie-France Pisier
Jean Aurel
Suzanne Schiffman
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud
Claude Jade
Marie-France Pisier
Dorothée
Dani
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Néstor Almendros
Edited by Martine Barraqué-Curie
Production
company
Les Films du Carrosse
Distributed by AMLF
Gala
Release date
  • 29 January 1979 (1979-01-29) (France)
  • 6 April 1979 (1979-04-06) (US)
  • June 1980 (1980-06) (UK)
Running time
94 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office 437,522 admissions (France)[1]

Love on the Run (French: L'amour en fuite) is a 1979 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is Truffaut's fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. A significant portion of the film is made up of selected clips from the previous films in the series. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

In the previous Antoine Doinel film, Bed and Board, the marriage between Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade) had survived Antoine's infidelity. Love on the Run is set eight years later when Antoine is over thirty. Having an affair with Christine's friend Liliane (Dani) and divorced Christine, he gets a job as a proofreader, and falls in love with Sabine, a record seller. He also writes an autobiographical novel. He meets Colette (Marie-France Pisier), his teenage love who had appeared in Antoine and Colette, and who is now a lawyer. They impulsively go on a train journey and read Antoine's novel. However, later follows a meeting between Colette and Christine: His romance with Sabine is as complicated and unstable, and it turns out that two of his former flames, Christine and Colette, play a pivotal role in helping him find happiness.

Reception

The film holds a rating of 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]

Cast

References

  1. Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films at Box Office Story
  2. "rottentomatoes.com". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
  3. Allen, Don. Finally Truffaut. New York: Beaufort Books. 1985. ISBN 0-8253-0335-4. OCLC 12613514. pp. 237-238.
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