Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- adultery
- infidelity
- paris
- france
- expensive restaurant
- marriage crisis
- job-hopping
- brothel
- 1970s
- violin
- music teacher
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade
Christine Doinel
Daniel Ceccaldi
Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel
Madame Darbon
- Hiroko Matsumoto — Kyoko
- Daniel Boulanger — Le Voisin Ténor
- Silvana Blasi — Silvana, la Femme du Ténor
- Barbara Laage — Monique, la Secrétaire
- Claude Véga — Le Pseudo Étrangleur
- Danièle Girard — Ginette, la Serveuse
- Philippe Léotard — L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
- François Truffaut — Le Marchand de Journaux (voice) (uncredited)
- Jacques Robiolles — Jacques
- Jacques Jouanneau — Césarin
- Christophe Vesque — Le Petit Christophe
- Directed
- François Truffaut
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 314 ratings
- Studio
- Valoria Films, Fida Cinematografica, Les Films du Carrosse
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1959The 400 Blows
Where it starts.
Stolen Kisses
1968
Bed and Board
1970 · You’re here
Love on the Run
1979
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
