Bed And Board

 Original Title: Domicile Conjugal
Director
: Francois Truffaut
Runtime
: 100 mins
Year
: 1970
Country
: France / Italy
Language
: French
Subtitle:
English
Colour
: Colour
Speciality
: Poignant and often hilarious study of extramarital affairs and love after that.
Palador DVD Code
:
Available As
: Part of ‘World Cinema Box Set

Synopsis

 BED AND BOARD - SYNOPSIS
   
 

In this fourth films of Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical series, Antoine Doinel has married violinist Christine he was dating in ‘Baisers Voles’. After Christine gets pregnant, he manages to secure a proper job thanks to a goof-up. Here, he falls in love with a Japanese girl. After delivery, Christine discovers his affairs and both separate. But can the two keep their love away from one another? Truffaut presents a comedy about marriage and its escapism with his typical intelligence and charm. 

Credits

 Bed And Board - CREDITS  
   
 

DIRECTED BY:


WRITTEN BY:



PRODUCED BY:


ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: 

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY:

FILM EDITING BY:


PRODCUTION DESIGN BY: 

François Truffaut 

François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon
Sojiro Motoki

Marcel Berbert, François Truffaut

Antoine Duhamel 

Néstor Almendros 

Agnès Guillemot 


Jean Mandaroux

 
   
   
 Cast: 
 

    Jean-Pierre Léaud ...    Antoine Doinel
    Claude Jade    ...         Christine Darbon Doinel
    Hiroko Berghauer...      Kyoko
    Barbara Laage    ...      Monique
    Danièle Girard    ...      Ginette
    Daniel Ceccaldi    ...     Monsieur Darbon
    Claire Duhamel    ...     Madame Darbon
    Daniel Boulanger...      Ténor
    Silvana Blasi    ...         Silvana
    Pierre Maguelon    ...    Ami de Césarin
    Jacques Jouanneau...   Césarin
    Claude Véga    ...         L'étrangleur
    Jacques Rispal    ...      Monsieur Desbois
    Jacques Robiolles...      Cadger
    Pierre Fabre    ...          Le ricaneur

 
 
  

 

Comments

 Bed And Board - QUOTES  
   
 "I can't help believing that François Truffaut's latest Antoine Doinel comedy, Bed and Board, will turn out to be one of the loveliest, most intelligent movies we'll see in all of 1971." - Vincent Canby, The New York times

"..a disarming, charming pic" - Variety Magazine

"..one of the most decent and loving films I can remember." - Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
 
   
   
 From the Film  
   
 

Christine Doinel: Virgin at twenty. I was a living anachronism, a real creep!

Christine Doinel: I don't like this business of writing about your childhood, dragging your parents through the mud. I don't know much, but one thing I do know - if you use art to settle accounts, it's no longer art.

Christine Doinel: Oh, my poor breasts. If I have a child, I won't breast-feed him.
Antoine Doinel: Well, don't look at me. He'll have to fend for himself.

Christine Doinel: Do what you have to do, but let me be. I'm not proud and never have been, so I can tell you: I still love you. But I'd rather not see you anymore.

Trivia

Bed And Board - TRIVIA  
   
When Claude Véga appears, he impersonates Delphine Seyrig and quotes a line from "L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad" ("Last Year At Marienbad"). He also quotes from a line that Delphine Seyrig spoke in the previous Antoine Doinel film, "Baisers Volees" ("Stolen Kisses"). 

 

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