Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.
- puberty
- child abuse
- holiday
- difficult childhood
- community
- teacher
- teenage crush
- school
- children's rights
- childhood
The bill
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François Richet, the Schoolteacher
Virginie Thévenet
Lydie Richet
Chantal Mercier
Chantal Petit, the Schoolteacher
Tania Torrens
Nadine Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's mother
- Nicole Félix — Grégory's mother
- Philippe Goldman — Julien Leclou
- Bruno de Stabenrath — Bruno Rouillard
- Georges Desmouceaux — Patrick Desmouceaux
- René Barnerias — Monsieur Desmouceaux, Patrick's father
- Francis Devlaeminck — Monsieur Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's father
- Laurent Devlaeminck — Laurent Riffle
- Marcel Berbert — School Principal
- François Truffaut — Martine's father
- Laura Truffaut — Madeleine Doinel, Oscar's mother
- Eva Truffaut — Patricia
- Directed
- François Truffaut
- Written
- Suzanne Schiffman, François Truffaut
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 166 ratings
- Studio
- Les Productions Artistes Associés, Les Films du Carrosse
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.
