Bed and Board

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Bed and Board

PG,

1968,

1h 37m,

Comedy/

Drama

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83%

18 Reviews

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84%

2,500+ Ratings

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18 Reviews

84%

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2,500+ Ratings

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon (Claude Jade), 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 (Mademoiselle Hiroko). The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Michael McNay

Guardian

Jun 8, 2020

Afte rL'Enfant Sauvage it comes as a disappointment.

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Margaret Hinxman

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Jun 8, 2020

In a subtly unobtrusive way it is irresistibly funny.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

It is laced with little incidents, quirky characters, incisive insights and quintessentially French national traits of complacency that avoid chauvinism in Truffaut's gentle but never sentimental or indulgent treatment.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Jul 9, 2022

[Truffaut creates] a warm sense of community reminiscent of the works of Jean Renoir, and he pays homage to comic auteur Jacques Tati in meticulously constructed comic bits and a hilarious cameo by Tati’s famous character M. Hulot.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Nov 5, 2008

B-

It's a minor Truffaut domestic romantic comedy, the least satisfactory of the series, although it's not without the usual charm and amusing moments.

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Aug 18, 2006

4/5

The continuing enchanting adventures of Antoine Doinel; not quite a Truffaut classic, but close.

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Claude Jade

Christine Doinel

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Synopsis

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon (Claude Jade), 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 (Mademoiselle Hiroko). The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Director: François Truffaut
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Screenwriter: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon
Distributor: Criterion Collection, Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Les Films du Carrosse
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 9, 1968, Original
Release Date (DVD): Apr 1, 2014
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Mono

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