Antoine and Colette

Antoine and Colette (1962)

Antoine et Colette

Will Colette ultimately fall for Antoine's romanticism?

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Date of release
1962-06-22
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (290)
Runtime
30m
Genres
Romance, Drama, Comedy
Director
François Truffaut
Collection
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

Antoine and Colette is a 1962 French short film written and directed by François Truffaut. It is the second installment in Truffaut's five-film series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood. Antoine and Colette was made for the 1962 anthology collection Love at Twenty, which also featured shorts from directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda.

Development

Truffaut had finished Jules and Jim in 1962 when he was approached by film producer Pierre Roustang for his omnibus film project Love at Twenty. Truffaut was influential in helping to select Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda as the other directors who eventually participated in the project.

Antoine and Colette is a largely autobiographical work, based on 17-year-old Truffaut's infatuation with an unconventional beauty named Liliane Litvin. Truffaut met Litvin at the Cinémathèque Française and quit his job as a welder and moved to Paris to be near her. Like Antoine, he took an apartment across the street from hers so that he could monitor her activities.

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