Antoine and Colette

Antoine and Colette
Directed by	François Truffaut
Produced by	Pierre Roustang
Written by	François Truffaut
Starring	Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier Patrick Auffay
Narrated by	Henri Serre
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Claudine Bouché
Production company	Ulysse Productions/ Unitel
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Embassy
Release date	(Paris) 22 June 1962 (UK) 10 September 1964 (USA) March 1963
Running time	32min.
Country	France
Language	French

Antoine and Colette (French: Antoine et Colette) is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The third is the feature film Stolen Kisses. Antoine and Colette was made for the 1962 anthology collection, Love at Twenty, which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.

Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, The 400 Blows. Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influential outpouring of work from young French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer.

Antoine and Colette catches up with Antoine as a solitary 20-year-old who works at Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He lives in a furnished room by himself in Place Clichy, listening to opera and classical music and spending time with René (Patrick Auffay), his school friend from The 400 Blows.

One day, while attending a Berlioz Music Programme with René, he spots Colette (Marie-France Pisier), a secondary school student, and falls in love for the first time.