Subtitled Foreign Film-Love On The Run

Beta Tape Love On The Run…Subtitled Foreign Film….24035.. Color…90 mins..Warner Home Video..Starring..Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dani..& Dorothee… The character of Antoine Doinel was introduced to the world more than two decades ago, in Francois Truffaut s classic first feature The 400 Blows — and it was love at first sight. Love On The Run, Truffaut s romantic and complex sequel, brings the Antoine Doinel saga to its conclusion. Doinel is about to be divorced. His frist novel has just been published. And the women in his life return to tempt him and teach him again, through a marvelous sequence of flashbacks which brings back to Antoine the bittersweet richness of his experience in life. Truffaut made use of an extraordinary resource in Love On The Run: film he had shot with the same actor, Jean-Pierre Leaud, over a span of twenty years. "When you have the good fortune to have filmed someone at 13 1/2, 19, 24, 28, and then at 33," says Truffaut, "you have some very special footage." Leaud proved to be a wonderful subject. Writing in his book Media Culture, critic James Monoco analyzes Leaud s fascinating appeal. "As Bogart incarnated the experience of those of us that were young in the 40 s, Leaud helps us to understand the life of the young people of the 60 s. Like Bogart, he also gave us the ironical model with which film audiences can instantly recognize thenselves and apply it almost therapeutically to their own lives." And how do we leave Antoine Doinel after living alongside him for so many years? "Antoine will once again be taking a chance on love, " reveals Truffaut. "She s a twenty-five year old beauty working as a salesgirl in a record store and her name is Sabine. Thanks to Sabine, Antoine is still in love and because he is still in love, he is still alive."