First Truffaut gave us "The 400 Blows." Then "Stolen Kisses"... and now "Bed and Board."
First Truffaut gave us "The 400 Blows." Then "Stolen Kisses"... and n...
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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1970
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7.5
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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.
The film is entertaining and discreetly sentimental, though perhaps a little too flattering to the fantasies of the young adult audience.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The sadness of the film's decaying domesticity keeps undermining it, giving it the air of a melancholy B-side to what's come before.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
16 May 2003
fresh:
I can't help believing that Francois Truffaut's latest Antoine Doinel comedy, Bed and Board, will turn out to be one of the loveliest, most intelligent movies we'll see in all of 1971.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Bed and Board is one of the most decent and loving films I can remember.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
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.