Love on the Run

Love on the Run is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut, his fifth and final film about the character Antoine Doinel. Told in non-linear fashion, with frequent flashbacks to the four previous films, it stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dorothée, and Dani. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot After they kissed at the end of the film Bed and Board, Antoine and his wife Christine were reconciled. However, his affections keep wandering, and on a summer holiday, she finds him in bed with her friend Liliane. They divorce by mutual consent, sharing custody of their son Alphonse, and the autobiographical novel he has been writing for years is published. In a phone booth, he finds a torn-up photograph of Sabine, a pretty girl who looks quite like Christine, and he decides to find her. Eventually spotting her in a record shop, they start an affair. As with Christine, there are upsets and separations. At his work, he is traced by Lucien, a lover of his mother, who takes him to her grave, which Antoine never had searched. At a railway station he sees Colette, his first love, who is now an advocate travelling to a court case, He jumps on her train, and they talk over old times, She has read his book, but soon becomes annoyed by his lack of veracity or interest in her life, and as they part, Antoine accidentally drops the photo.