love on the run

L’amour en fuite. Truffaut. 1979.

cute couple alert

Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig) in Baisers volés. Truffaut. 1968.

truffaut directs

François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani filming The Story of Adèle H. 1975.

festival time!

George, Ringo, Jane Birkin and so on. I seem to recall something about Harrison getting into some sort of very minor trouble with the law while attending the festival but I can’t find any information about it anywhere right now.

Festival jurors Louis Malle, Monica Vitti, Roman Polanski.

Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle and Roman Polanski. I think at 5′7″, Godard is the tallest of the bunch.

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Cannes 68!

festival time!

The nouvelle vague at Cannes. 1959. Foreground (left to right): François Truffaut, Raymond Vogel, Louis Félix, Edmond Séchan. Second row: Edouard Molinaro, Jacques Baratier, Jean Valère. Third row: François Reichenbach, Robert Hossein, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Roger Vadim, Marcel Camus. Back row: Claude Chabrol, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier.

antoine doinel

Les quatre cents coups. 1959. L’amour en fuite. 1979.

bed and board

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade in François Truffaut’s Domicile conjugal. 1970.

stolen kisses

On the set of Baisers volés: Truffaut, Léaud, Langlois.

truffaut predicts

For some reason, in 1963, Films and Filming magazine asked “a representative selection of British, American and Continental producers, directors and actors what, in their opinion, has been the most significant trend of the past eight years and what they hope will be the most significant trend in the years ahead.” Here are how some of them replied:

on location

François Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses was filmed around Paris in 1968. Here are two of the locations as they appeared in the film and as they appear today.