Bed and Board

Film - 1970

7,0

5.3K

Bed and Board it's a movie with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel, Hiroko Berghauer Full cast. Directed by François Truffaut. Original title Domicile Conjugal, runtime 100 minutes. Genres Commedia, Drama, Romance.

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Ignazio Venzano

This film has been judged variously by the public and critics. It is a "signature" product (Truffaut), which gives back the sense of a logical story, a non-original even if unusual story, a scene seen from an impersonal eye that does not make judgements, also because the judgment lies in the story itself. Antoine is in love with his wife, but suddenly he becomes involved (and deliberately involves himself) in an unlikely story: with a Japanese woman, quite attached to her own traditions. It is not certain, of course, that this choice will be good for him. The protagonist is as we see him, he does not pose any particular existential or moral problems (in the search for work, for example). He lives day by day. In the end we will see very briefly if the couple reunites, and how. The film is certainly influenced by the time in which it was shot (1970), but the story, albeit with some tweaks, could stand up well even today, in which we are on average more globalized. Read all

Gabriele Cantoni

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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.