Word: truffant
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...With variations. Antoine's problem is shared by the heroes of most of Truffaut's non-Doinel films as well- but nowhere is it as painfully brought forth as in Bed and Board. After fifteen years of fighting for his fantasies. Antoine at last gives up in this picture. Truffant's new movie deals a death blow to a hero of now legendary proportions and, in the process, chills much of the hope this director had passed on to us in the possibility that romantic love might actually save...
...time and blew your mind. They were a cheap date. True, we had our complement of film societies and encyclopaedic experts. And true, too, there were few among us who wouldn't offer up, if pressed, a definition of the Bogart mystique or a guarded speculation as to what Truffant was really up to. But by and large the motion picture was pretty small beer...
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