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Antoine and Colette (French title: Antoine et Colette) is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The film was made for the 1962 anthology collection, L'Amour à vingt ans (Love at Twenty), which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut.

Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first film, Les Quatre Cents Coups
(The 400 Blows). Truffaut's tender, semi-autobiographical film about the young Antoine and his gradual descent into petty crime introduced the world to the French New Wave, a short-lived but highly influtential outpouring of work from young French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer.

Antoine and Colette catches up with Antoine Doinel as a solitary 17-year-old who works at a classical record store to support himself. He meets Colette, a university student, at a concert and falls in love for the first time. The film traces his awkward courtship of the icy Colette, who never reciprocates. Léaud gives a mature, knowing performance, establishing Antoine as a universal figure, an Everyman — or in this case, an Everyboy-man — whose joys and pains can be felt by everyone. Truffaut continues the soft, moving style he employed in Les Quatre Cents Coups to great effect, painting a poetic portrait of young, unrequited love. Doinel`s adventures follow with Baisers volés, Domicile conjugal and Love on the Run.

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