Baisers volés
Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses in Spain; The Hour of Love in Argentina) is a French film from 1968, directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade in the lead roles.
It is the continuation of the story of the character Antoine Doinel, which began with the film The 400 Blows and the short film Antoine and Colette and would be followed by Marital home and Love on the Run. In this film Antoine begins his love affair with Christine . The character of Antoine always was played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.
Plot
The story begins when Antoine Doinel, who had run away from home as a child as described in The 400 Blows, is discharged from military service and is reunited with his friend Christine (Claude Jade). Now in civilian life, Antoine looks for a job to survive, starting as a night watchman, but due to unfortunate situations and due to his ineptitude and bad luck, he ends up being fired. He then gets a job as a private detective and thus ends up infiltrating a shoe store as a salesperson, at the request of the store owner, who seeks to find out why the people around him (his employees and others) hate him. Antoine ends up seduced by the store owner's wife, with whom he has an affair. Antoine and Christine's relationship deteriorates and they end up separating, he also loses his job as a private detective. Antoine, now working as an appliance repairman, is sent to Christine's house who has intentionally broken her television so she can watch Antoine while her parents are away from home.
Eventually Antoine and Christine end up reconciling and engaged. Their relationship as a couple is described in later films.
"It's one of the best romantic comedies of all time. From then on, his adventures would always be linked to the love of a couple, always with that quixotic nobility that accompanies him even in the most complete lack of protection, through Stolen Kisses, which exploits the relationship with his friend Christine (Claude Jade).; Marital home (1971) -which finds him married to Christine- and Love on the Run (1979), where the marriage ends. At least a couple generations of moviegoers grew up on these movies. [...] Stolen Kisses was shot in turbulent months, which included the events of French May. Truffaut would be criticized for the light tone of the film, despite opening it with the image of the closed French Cinematheque, and dedicating it to his director, Henri Langlois, who had been thrown out of office by the minister André Malraux. In fiction, the demonstrations of those days appear in television images and interest Christine, but not Antoine, which was seen by some as a lack of commitment on the part of the filmmaker. But Truffaut was very clear: Antoine is an unprotected young man who must work to live, that is, he belongs to the working class, while Christine lives with her parents and does not work. For the working class, politics is a luxury." ([1] Archived August 26, 2018, at the Wayback Machine.)
Dubbing
- Jean-Pierre Léaud (Antoine Doinel): Alberto Trifol
- Claude Jade (Christine Darbon): Rosa Guiñón
- Delphine Seyrig (Fabienne Tabard): Elsa Fábregas
- Michael Lonsdale (Georges Tabard): Joaquín Díaz
- Daniel Ceccaldi (Lucien Darbon): José Luis Sansalvador
- Claire Duhamel (Madame Darbon): Rosario Cavallé
- Serge Rousseau (Gbardina Man): Rogelio Hernández
- André Falcon (Blady): Arsenio Corsellas
- Harry-Max (Mr. Henri): Felipe Peña