Criterion Trailer 187: Bed and Board
Trailer
The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
5 films
François Truffaut (Director) · Claude de Givray (Screenplay) · Bernard Revon (Screenplay)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade
Christine Doinel
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel
Madame Darbon
Hiroko Matsumoto
Kyoko
Daniel Boulanger
Le Voisin Ténor
Silvana Blasi
Silvana, la Femme du Ténor
Barbara Laage
Monique, la Secrétaire
Claude Véga
Le Pseudo Étrangleur
Danièle Girard
Ginette, la Serveuse
Philippe Léotard
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
François Truffaut
Le Marchand de Journaux (voice) (uncredited)
Jacques Robiolles
Jacques
Jacques Jouanneau
Césarin
Christophe Vesque
Le Petit Christophe
Pierre Maguelon
L'ami de Césarin
Guy Piérauld
Le Réparateur TV
Yvon Lec
Le Contractuel
Pierre Fabre
L'employé de Bureau Ricaneur
Billy Kearns
Mr. Max
Marianne Piketti
Marianne
Marie Dedieu
Marie, la Prostituée
Jacques Rispal
Monsieur Desbois
Christian de Tillière
Baumel
Anik Belaubre
La Mère de Marianne
Marie Iracane
Madame Martin, la Concierge
Ernest Menzer
Le Petit Homme
Emilie Barbault
Alphonse Doinel (uncredited)
Marcel Berbert
L'employé de M. Max (uncredited)
Jacques Cottin
Monsieur Hulot (uncredited)
Frédérique Dolbert
Alphonse Doinel (uncredited)
Nicole Félix
L'employée de M. Max (uncredited)
Miss Irakane
Alphonse Doinel (uncredited)
Iska Khan
Le Père de Kyoko (uncredited)
Ada Lonati
Madame Claude (uncredited)
Marcel Mercier
Un Homme dans la Cour (uncredited)
Joseph Mériau
Un Homme dans la Cour (uncredited)
Jérôme Richard
L'employé de M. Max (uncredited)
Serge Rousseau
Petit Rôle (uncredited)
Helen Scott
Dame au Restaurant (uncredited)
Criterion Trailer 187: Bed and Board
Trailer
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
