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STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut's new film is another chapter in his cinematic autobiography, a souvenir of the frantic romances and comic careers of an adolescent (Jean-Pierre Léaud) reaching for manhood...
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...
...director working today takes such evident joy as Truffaut in the process of film making, and he makes the feeling infectious. Although he freezes the image in the middle of an action or plays with enlarging the size of the frame, Truffaut makes technique serve the story and never overwhelm it. He enjoys staging little jokes (the tea-drinking scene with the owner's wife is an unabashed tribute to Hitchcock), but they remain always in context. Many of the characters in Stolen Kisses and much of the action may be embellished, but it is all based and modeled...
Each film by François Truffaut is a paradigm of innocence. The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim were about the destruction of innocence. Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin described its dangers, and Fahrenheit 451 was its vindication. Even last year's The Bride Wore Black (TIME, July 5), a hard-edged homage to Hitchcock, contained much of the director's characteristic compassion for its driven, doomed characters. Stolen Kisses is Truffaut's newest and gentlest film, a lovely memory of adolescence that begins with the delight of youth and ends with...
...also a chapter in Truffaut's continuing cinematic autobiography. Antoine Doinel, once again played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, is Truffaut's self-styled persona, who got banished to reform school in The 400 Blows and was spurned by his girl friend in Love at Twenty. Now, in Kisses, he is seen leaving the army after struggling to get a psychological discharge. "You can always sell ties," shrugs his commanding officer, adding hopefully: "I hope we never meet again." His girl friend's father fixes him up with a cushy job as a hotel night clerk...