Love on the Run | |
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Directed by | François Truffaut |
Produced by | Marcel Berbert François Truffaut |
Written by | François Truffaut Marie-France Pisier Jean Aurel Suzanne Schiffman |
Starring |
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Marie-France Pisier Dorothée Dani |
Music by | Georges Delerue |
Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
Edited by | Martine Barraqué-Curie |
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Les Films du Carrosse
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Distributed by | AMLF Gala |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | 437,522 admissions (France) |
Love on the Run (French: L'amour en fuite) is a 1979 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is Truffaut's fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. A significant portion of the film is made up of selected clips from the previous films in the series. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
In the previous Antoine Doinel film, Bed and Board, the marriage between Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade) had survived Antoine's infidelity. Love on the Run is set eight years later when Antoine is over thirty. Having an affair with Christine's friend Liliane (Dani) and divorced Christine, he gets a job as a proofreader, and falls in love with Sabine, a record seller. He also writes an autobiographical novel. He meets Colette (Marie-France Pisier), his teenage love who had appeared in Antoine and Colette, and who is now a lawyer. They impulsively go on a train journey and read Antoine's novel. However, later follows a meeting between Colette and Christine: His romance with Sabine is as complicated and unstable, and it turns out that two of his former flames, Christine and Colette, play a pivotal role in helping him find happiness.
The film holds a rating of 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.