Jean-Pierre LéaudFilmography

Out 1

Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's Seven Read More

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

Actors: Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's noirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed. The film is narrated by Read More

The Dreamers

Actors: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent late '60s. The story begins in 1968 with the Read More

What Time is it There?

Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Miao Tien, Cecilia Yip

Synopsis: Master Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang directs this look at three people looking for human connection. Hsiao-kang (Tsai regular Lee Kang-sheng) is a young man who sells watches from a briefcase in front of Taipei's train station. When his father (Mio Tien) suddenly dies at the beginning of the Read More

A Matter of Taste

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Artus de Penguern

Synopsis: A waiter discovers that good taste can be dangerous in this offbeat psychological drama from France. Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a young man living in bohemian poverty in Lyon, sharing a flat with his girlfriend Beatrice (Florence Thomassin) and three of their friends. Nicolas works part-time Read More

The Pornographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc, Thibault de Montalembert, André Marcon

Synopsis: A man who traded in his artistic ambitions for commercial success now finds himself at a personal and professional impasse in this drama. Jacques (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a filmmaker who in the 1970s directed a number of top-grossing porno movies; more than two decades later, Jacques's struggles to Read More

L'Affaire Marcorelle

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film references. The film opens with student radical-turned-magistrate Francois Marcorelle (Jean-Pierre Leaud) stumbling into an art house movie theater mid-film. The rather comely Read More

Pour Rire!

Actors: Ornella Muti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Chappey, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian Read More

Irma Vep

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

Le Journal D'Un Seducteur

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old Claire, a young woman seemingly suffering a terminal case of ennui. She glumly goes through the minimal motions of living until she falls in love with handsome Gregoire, a highly Read More

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

L'Ile Au Trésor

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island and the television adventure shows he is watching. This story device allows the highly regarded and very Read More

À Naissance De L'Amour

Personne ne m'aime

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Lio, Michèle Laroque, Maaike Jansen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from France, Annie (Bernadette Lafont), a middle-aged single mother who hasn't seen her grown-up daughter Marie (Lio) in years, has just been shown the door by her boyfriend. Given her bad luck with men over the years, Annie ought to be used to this by now, but sadly that's Read More

La Naissance de L'Amour

Actors: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Dominique Reymond, Marie-Paul Laval

Synopsis: Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is Read More

La Vie De Bohème

Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Despite their Read More

Missa On Musette?

Actors: Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, André Wilms, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and his brother Mika have, between them, completely revitalized Finland's native film industry, and their wild, anarchic films have delighted audiences while smashing through old Read More

Paris s'éveille

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who is on the run from the police, comes to stay with Read More

C'est la Vie

I Hired a Contract Killer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was "privatized," complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing Read More

Bunker Palace Hotel

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoit Regent, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas, Yann Collette

Synopsis: The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the officials to flee for safety to the underground hotel of the title. Clara (Carole Bouquet), a spy for the rebels, infiltrates the hotel to observe the last moves of the crumbling Read More

Femme de Papier

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hélène Lapiower, Caroline Loeb, Rufus, Thierry Fortineau

Paperback Woman

Synopsis: Originally Femme de Papier, Paperback Woman has also been released in English-speaking countries as Front Woman. Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as a publisher of steamy novels, while Helene Lapiower co-stars as Leaud's lover, a girl of limited talents who nonetheless is one of the publishing company's Read More

Les Keufs

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Marie Marion, Patrick Olivier, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls for the black detective who is sent to investigate charges of corruption. Their relationship is adversarial before it becomes congenial. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Ossegg - Oder Die Wahrheit Uber Hansel und Gretel

La Couleur Du Vent

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Philippe Léotard, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis: Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted manuscript. She breaks up with Serge (Philippe Leotard), the printer who loves her. Louise tells the heartbroken Serge she has fallen in love with the author whom she has Read More

36 Fillette

Actors: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Oliver Parniere, Jean-François Stévenin, Berta D. Dominguez

Synopsis: Titled after the name of a little girl's dress size, the coming-of-age drama 36 Fillette follows a couple days in the life of 14-year-old Lili (Delphine Zentout), whose physically mature features contrast with her immature adolescent angst. Away from her home in Paris, she is painfully bored Read More

Jane B. Par Agnes V.

Actors: Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as one of the nude models in Blow-Up to her pinnacle as Read More

Boran - Zeit Zum Zielen

Actors: Renée Soutendijk, Julien Schoenaerts, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Grandeur et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinema

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard pokes fun at the follies and injustices of small-time filmmaking in this drama-comedy about two apparent has-beens who are trying their best to get together the funds and the cast for a last, desperate bid for cinematic fame and fortune. The duo (Jean-Claude Mocky and Jean-Pierre Leaud Read More

Corps Et Biens

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lambert Wilson, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now marrying rich heiress Ariane (Ingrid Held) in hopes of taking all she's worth. Unfortunately for Michel, the murder victim's hard-fisted, tippling neighbor Madam Krantz (Danielle Darrieux Read More

Vivement Truffaut

Synopsis: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he Read More

Csak Egy Mozi

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Deborah Javor, Tamas Major, Gisela May, Denisa Kucerova

Synopsis: Starting with a clear objective -- Peter, the director filming "Swan Lake" (Jean-Pierre Leaud) needs to replace an actor who is not working out -- this story then progresses erratically and ends in confusion. Peter stops work on his film and leaves to take a train with his wife when he sees an Read More

Détective

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Stephane Ferrara, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible Read More

Rue Fontaine

Actors: Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Garrel

Paris Vu Par... 20 Ans Apres

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin, Julien Dubois, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a different aspect of Parisian life. The films and their directors include: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid by Chantal Akerman; Place Clichy by Bernard Dubois; Rue Fontaine by Philippe Garrel Read More

La Cassure

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Christian Alers

Rebelote

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Christophe Bazzini, Olga Georges-Picot, Jacques Robiolles, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Director Jacques Richard tried to emulate a silent movie in all its aspects when he filmed Rebelote. Originally screened with a live string orchestra, the silent black-and-white film has inter-titles and tongue-in-cheek, melodramatic acting and a "soap opera" type plot. Unfortunately, the tale of Read More

Help Me Dream

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Anthony Franciosa, Paola Pitagora, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: The time is WW II in the Emilia-Romagna countryside in Italy, and an American pilot's plane has just broken down near the farmhouse of a middle-aged widow, Francesca (Mariangela Melato) and her three young daughters. The widow has recently come back to her family's land and is picking up where she Read More

Love on the Run

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past. As the fifth and final film in the series, Antoine is over 30 years old and meets with his wife, Christine (Claude Jade), to sign Read More

Les Lolos de Lola

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claudine Vannier, Zouzou, Yan Dedet, Julien Dubois

Synopsis: In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he makes his pilgrimage to Paris and seeks adventure while living on a barge. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Out One Spectre

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half hours long. It concerns a young man who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to beg for money and begins to get letters which make him think that a conspiracy, hitherto known Read More

Day for Night

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani

Synopsis: Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French Read More

The Mother and the Whore

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Francoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten

Synopsis: One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish Read More

Last Tango in Paris

Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More

Der Leone Have Sept Cabecas

Actors: Rada Rassimov, Hugo Carvana, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a Read More

Une Aventure de Billy the Kid

Synopsis: Billy the Kid (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is both ruthless and bumbling in this impressionistic French-made western. Ruthless, in that he tracks down a witness to a robbery and kills him in cold blood. Bumbling, in that he literally stumbles over things throughout the film. He is also lucky, one might Read More

Two English Girls

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle inevitably invites comparison to Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and not surprisingly, as both are based on novels by Henri-Pierre Roche (the only two novels Roche authored). Truffaut Read More

Bed and Board

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Claire Duhamel, Danièle Gérard

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series, this romantic comedy shows how Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) went from being a mischievous boy to an adorably charming young man of 26. Domicile Conjugal begins with Antoine settling down with Christine (Claude Jade), his Read More

Porcile

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Julian (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is the son of German industrialist Klotz (Alberto Lionello) who seeks to go into business with the former Nazi Herdhitze (Ugo Tognazzi). Herdhitze had spent most of World War II collecting human skulls for experiments with brain matter. As a protest, Julian refuses to Read More

Paul

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with Yvan (Jean-Pierre Kalfon), leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are Read More

Os Herdeiros

Actors: Odette Lara, Paulo Porto, Isabel Ribeiro

Synopsis: A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the death of a popular rebel leader. The journalist recovers and is sent to interview a plantation owner who is fighting to save his land from being nationalized. Men are helpless Read More

La Concentration

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Zouzou

Synopsis: This plodding and confusing feature finds two disenchanted young lovers cavorting around in tee shirts and rubber pants. Hints of youthful discontent and symbolism are presented in this pretentious film about a couple who live an embryonic existence cut off from the rest of the world. The most Read More

Stolen Kisses

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an Read More

Le Gai Savoir

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language. The setting is a darkened soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most radical thoughts about making films. Read More

Weekend

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Eustache, Paul Gégauff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a Read More

The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Chinoise

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with his swiftly paced satire La Chinoise. Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student who commiserates with the four members of her campus Maoist group. They are so Read More

Le Départ

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Duport

Synopsis: Marc Jean-Pierre Leaud is a young man who works at a local beauty shop and dreams of cars. When he "borrows" his boss's car for the evening, he is seduced by a wealthy woman before finding love with a younger woman nearer to his own age. Marc also dreams of being part of the affluent society he Read More

Masculin/Feminin

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Duport

Synopsis: Masculine Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not his last) foray into the burgeoning "Children of the Sixties" generation -- or, as Godard described it, "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Impressionable teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) tries to make sense of the world by working as an Read More

Made in USA

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laszlo Szabo, Kyoko Kosaka

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brightly colored, pop-art homage to American crime cinema, which somehow finds room for extended commentary on leftist politics and the corrupt nature of advertising. Paula Nelson (Anna Karina) is a mystery woman (Is she a reporter? Perhaps a spy?) who used to be Read More

Le Père Noël a les Yeux Bleus

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, René Gilson

Synopsis: In this affectionate and not uncritical exploration of small-town life in France, Jean-Pierre Leaud plays Daniel, a teenager on the verge of making some major decisions about his life, which will probably result in his leaving his backwater home. He is helping support himself by working any Read More

Pierrot Le Fou

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani

Synopsis: Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. Read More

La Femme Mariée

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Philippe Leroy, Roger Leenhardt

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard narrates this study of a married woman who begins an affair with another man. After becoming pregnant, she is unable to figure out which man is the father of her son and must choose between the two. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Amour à Vingt Ans

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Cristina Gajoni, Rosy Varte, François Darbon, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

Synopsis: Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini Read More

Antoine et Colette

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Antoine et Colette, which was originally made as an episode in the series L'Amour à vingt ans, was a sequel to Truffaut's The 400 Blows. In the film, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) works at the Philips record store and courts the elusive Colette (Marie-France Pisier). The story of Antoine Read More

Boulevard

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Magali Noël, Monique Brienne, Pierre Mondy, Jacques Duby

Synopsis: As in François Truffaut's award-winning first picture, 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Leaud once again takes up the role of a besieged and troubled teen in Boulevard. But that ends the points of similarity between the dramas, since this is a routine and uneven film, not up to director Julien Duviver's Read More

The Testament of Orpheus

Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermit, Yul Brynner, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier

Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More

The 400 Blows

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble Read More