Love on the Run (1979) - Movie

Love on the Run (1979)
Beginning with "The 400 Blows," director Francois Truffaut made a series of films about the impetuous Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), in which this is the last. Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife (Claude Jade). It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about...

Release Date: April 6th, 1979

PG |1 hr 33 min

Plot Summary

Beginning with "The 400 Blows," director Francois Truffaut made a series of films about the impetuous Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), in which this is the last. Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife (Claude Jade). It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk (Dorothée), he impulsively takes off with an old flame (Marie-France Pisier).

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Rosy Varte, Marie Henriau, Daniel Mesguich, Julien Bertheau, Dorothée

Director: François Truffaut

Genres: Romantic comedy

Distributors: New World Pictures, Criterion Collection, Fox Lorber

Keywords: 1970s, Love, Emotional, Amusing, Growing up

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