Bed and Board (1970 film)

This article is about a French film. For lodging, see Bed and breakfast.

Bed and Board
original film poster
Directed by	François Truffaut
Produced by	François Truffaut Marcel Berbert
Written by	François Truffaut Claude de Givray Bernard Revon
Starring	Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Hiroko Berghauer Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel
Music by	Antoine Duhamel
Cinematography	Nestor Almendros
Edited by	Agnés Guillemot
Production company	Les Films du Carrosse Valoria Films Fida Cinematografica
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	9 September 1970 (France) 21 January 1971 (NYC, USA) 8 July 1971 (UK)
Running time	100 min
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	1,010,797 admissions (France)^[1]

Bed and Board (French: Domicile Conjugal) is a 1970 French film directed by François Truffaut. It is the fourth in Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses, showing the married life of Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade). The last in the series is Love on the Run.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel
Claude Jade as Christine Doinel
Daniel Ceccaldi as Lucien Darbon
Claire Duhamel as Madame Darbon
Hiroko Berghauer as Kyoko
Daniel Boulanger as Tenor
Silvana Blasi as Tenor's wife
Pierre Fabri as the office Romeo
Barbara Laage as Monique, secretary
Billy Kearns as M. Max
Claude Véga as the Strangler
Jacques Jouanneau as Césarin
Danièle Girard as Ginette, a waitress
Jacques Robiolles as Sponger
Yvon Lec as the Traffic Warden
Marie Irakane as Mrs Martin, a concierage
Ernest Menzer as the little man
Jacques Rispal as Old Solitary
Philippe Léotard as a Drunkard
Pierre Maguelon as Cérasin's friend
Guy Pierrault as an SOS employee
Marcel Mercier as a person in the courtyard
Joseph Merieau as a person in the courtyard
Christian de Tiliere as a Senator
Nobuko Mati as Kyoko's friend
Iska Khan as Kyoko's father
Jacques Cottin as Monsieur Hulot (uncredited)^[2]

Notes

The film contains humorous references to "Last Year at Marienbad," Jacques Tati and the previous film in this series, "Stolen Kisses."

References

↑ Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films at Box Office Story
↑ Allen, Don. Finally Truffaut. New York: Beaufort Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8253-0335-7. pp. 231-232.

External links

François Truffaut

Films directed	The 400 Blows (1959) Shoot the Piano Player (1960) The Army Game (1961) Jules and Jim (1962) The Soft Skin (1964) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The Bride Wore Black (1968) Stolen Kisses (1968) Mississippi Mermaid (1969) The Wild Child (1970) Bed and Board (1970) Two English Girls (1971) Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) Day for Night (1973) The Story of Adele H. (1975) Small Change (1976) The Man Who Loved Women (1977) The Green Room (1978) Love on the Run (1979) The Last Metro (1980) The Woman Next Door (1981) Confidentially Yours (1983)

Short films	Une Visite (1955) Les Mistons (1957) A Story of Water (1958) Antoine and Colette (from Love at Twenty, 1962)

Written only	Breathless (1960) The Little Thief (1988)

Books	Hitchcock/Truffaut

Related	Antoine Doinel François Truffaut Award François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993 documentary) Two in the Wave (2010 documentary) Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015 documentary)

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