Two Short Films by Fran?ois Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette)
by Francois Truffaut
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Actor: Bernadette Lafont, Gerard Blanc, Jean-Pierre L?aud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick AuffayDirector: Francois Truffaut
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 47 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Two Short Films by Fran?ois Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette)
Movie Review: Truffaut Shorts To Treasure
Summary: 5 Stars
This review refers to "Les Mistons" and "Antoine & Colette" - Two Short Films by Francois Truffaut, DVD edition Fox Lorber World Class Cinema Collection...
If you are already a fan of Truffaut, then I don't have to tell you that he has quite a gift for filmmaking. If you are just getting to know him, these two short films are a good place to start. In the span of only 17 minutes("Les Mistons") and then again in 30 minutes("Antoine & Colette"), Truffaut manages to convey a story that captivates, with characters we care about, that draw you in from start to finish. These two will give you a taste of his work in both comedy and drama.
From 1957 "Les Mistons" (The Brats), finds a group of young boys, who have become obsessed with an "older woman". They are taken with her beauty, and intrigued by her behavior(especially her romantic escapades with her boyfriend). Not old enough or experienced enough in the ways of the world to show their admiration properly, the adolescents taunt and annoy her.
In another story of young love gone awry, "Antoine and Colette", a young man(Jean-Pierre Leaud) has fallen deeply for a girl he knows from school. She is friendly with him, but does not return the same deep affection he feels for her. He does everything imaginable to gain her attentions, including cozying up to her parents, and even taking an apartment across the street. This film, from 1962 is the second in the "Antoine Doniel" series.
At times showing their age, I thought the transfer of these old French shorts looked pretty good. The sound was always clear and distinguishable during both the dialouge and narration portions. The English subtitles were clear and well placed. Another reviewer mentioned they had trouble with a freezing problem at about the 23 minute mark of "Antoine", my copy did not have this problem.
Aspiring filmmakers, admirers of Truffaut, lovers of Short film, French film, and lovers of love in general, will find these to be pieces of cinema to treasure.
Merci Beaucoup....enjoy...Laurie
also recommended:Les Miserables (Original French Version) NO SUBTITLES
Summary of Two Short Films by Fran?ois Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette)
Fran?ois Truffaut's 1957 short "Les Mistons" (roughly translated to "The Brats") is an early testament to Truffaut's affinity with kids and his first exploration of impossible love. Five boys palling around one summer fall for a teen beauty, but as the narrator (one of the five) describes, "Too young to love Bernadette, we decided to hate her--and torment her." These adolescent boys are neither cute nor innocent, but Truffaut sympathizes with the frustration born of budding hormones and sexual mystery. In 1962, he revisited similar territory in the sketch "Antoine and Collette." The second film to feature alter ego Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre L?aud), it was originally made for the omnibus film Love at Twenty but has outlived its companion shorts. As romantic and gently ironic as The 400 Blows is harsh and haunting, this modest 20-minute lark finds a teenage Antoine pursuing the lovely, lithe 20-year-old Colette (Marie-France Pisier) like a lovesick puppy dog. The comic sweetness of this episode sets the tone for all future Doinel films, and L?aud, who matured into the poster boy for the French new wave, displays the lanky charm and self-effacing egotism that propelled him through some of the greatest films of the next two decades. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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