Word: leaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the shot of Paris. Truffaut cuts to lead actor Jean-Picrre Leaud (Godard's Mascudin-Feminin. La Chinoise Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows, Skolimowski's Le Depart) reading Balzac. The use of books is a Novell Vague device which reveals Truffaut's Hundred Blows when twelve-year old Leaud kept a bust of Balzae in his room...
...charm of Stolen Kissen lies in the spontaneous, loose, and entirely convincing performance by Leaud, who plays a young man who is discharged from the army and bounces from one unique situation to another. He is the unassuming and unsuspecting victim of the machinations of some willful force. This force takes on a humorous cast when we see him tumble into bed with various scheming females. The almost careless and carefree use of the camera in Stolen Kisses is intentional and underlines the unpredictable life-style of Antoine Doinel (Leaud...
STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a lovely souvenir of adolescence that focuses on the frantic romances and comic careers of an ebullient young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud...
...completed work on one new movie and plans to start filming another this fall. Each, in a different way, reveals the Truffaut genre: Stolen Kisses, which will soon open in the U.S., shows the rebel as before-but grown to maturity. Again, he is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, the juvenile star of The 400 Blows. The new project, The Siren of Mississippi, is to be yet another salute to American cinema, a story of mail-order romance starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo...
Miss Goya may sound formidable, but half the mystery springs from her not acting formidable most of the time. Godard captures her self-centeredness by focusing on her trivial gestures--incessant slow hair-combing, contemplative re-rouging, a monologue that skips carelessly from sex to her new blue coat. Leaud plays a jokier person than Miss Goya, except when he is with Miss Goya. We watch while he and a Marx-spouting companion lounge in a cafe, get up one at a time, borrow sugar from a table nearby. The two are inspecting the breasts of a lady sitting...