Bed and Board
Bed and Board
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1h 38m
Directed by François Truffaut • 1970 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Madamoiselle Hiroko
The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, BED AND BOARD plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis. Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, BED AND BOARD is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between adolescence and adulthood.
Up Next in Bed and Board
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Working with François Truffaut
Conducted in April 1986, this interview with BED AND BOARD cowriters Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon was originally produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and edited for the Criterion Collection in 2003.
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Cinéastes de notre temps: François Tr...
This 1970 interview, from “Cinéastes de notre temps: François Truffaut, dix ans dix films,” provides a rare peek into the creative process by which François Truffaut and his cowriter Bernard Revon developed ideas.
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BED AND BOARD On Location
The following is an excerpt from the “Le Dernier film de Truffaut” episode of the French television show “Midi Magazine” (March 23, 1970). It includes rarely seen footage of François Truffaut shooting a scene on the BED AND BOARD set, and an interview with Truffaut and actor Claude Jade.
