Stolen Kisses

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Stolen Kisses

R

1969

1h 30m

Comedy

Drama

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The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's (Claude Jade) father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

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Critics Consensus

Stolen Kisses is a fine feature follow-up to The 400 Blows, transforming Antoine Doinel into a sympathetic, silly, and romantic figure that carries to the series' end.

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Joe Morgenstern

Newsweek

Jul 6, 2022

By almost almost any standards but those he has already set, François Truffaut has an enormous new success in Stolen Kisses. It's certainly an entertaining movie... By no stretch of any romantic's imagination, though, is Stolen Kisses a great film.

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Ben Kern

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Mar 2, 2022

Francois Truffaut has come out with a comedy, sometimes very funny, sometimes relevant to youthful problems, and always balanced between emotional extremes by Gallic worldliness.

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Gavin Millar

Sight & Sound

Mar 31, 2020

This beautifully conceived and brilliantly acted film confirms Truffauts high place in the French humanist tradition. He can stand the comparison with Renoir.

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Giles M. Fowler

Kansas City Star

Sep 2, 2020

Like the age it surveys, the picture is by turns playful, tense, lovely and breathlessly sensitive to details of mood and manner.

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Paul Schrader

Los Angeles Free Press

Jan 24, 2020

Francoise Truffaut's Stolen Kisses is so good, so impeccably crafted, that it catches us by surprise.

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

Jul 10, 2018

The film wears its charm on its sleeve, which is probably as good a place as any to wear it: tender, hilarious, gracefully reticent.

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Scott R

@ScottR Mar 4, 2026

NYT 1000 Films. Arguably the most enjoyable of the three films with its focus on Doinel and his career growth / struggles trying the army, night watchman, and as a private investigator. Of course it’s comedic in its approach and uniquely French, but it entertains. Saw on box.

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Jens B

@Jens97 Feb 28, 2026

There seem to be more private detectives in Paris than anywhere else in the world. The plot meanders along; it's once again about love and all sorts of entanglements. But: it's simply fun to watch Antoine Doinel on his journey through life.

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Leo P

@RT23366938 Oct 21, 2024

Child sociopath Doinel keeps on spooking people as a young man,but no one seems to mind. Genius Truffaut makes fun of ordinary folks like us,but we also don't mind. Not a masterpiece as Day for Night,yet far better movie they make today.

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Alexsander F

@Aelxs Oct 8, 2024

Simplesmente fantástico da fotografia até o roteiro um tanto quanto pitoresco, Truffaut é para se assistir em estado de graça assim como é Godard.

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Bulgantamir B

@RT36664197 Aug 4, 2024

When I watched it again, I knew it was a good movie

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 Aug 3, 2024

The idea behind this movie moved me a lot, but it was a movie with really satisfying expectations

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

Antoine Doinel

Delphine Seyrig

Fabienne Tabard

Michaël Lonsdale

Georges Tabard

Claude Jade

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Synopsis

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's (Claude Jade) father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig), and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Director: François Truffaut
Producer: Marcel Berbert
Screenwriter: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon
Distributor: Criterion Collection, Lopert Pictures Corp.
Production Co: Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 3, 1969, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Apr 1, 2014
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Mono

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