Directed by:
François TruffautCinematography:
Néstor AlmendrosComposer:
Georges DelerueCast:
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dorothée, Dani, Daniel Mesguich, Julien Bertheau, Anne Kreis, Jean-Pierre Ducos, André Dussollier (more)Plots(1)
François Truffaut's LOVE ON THE RUN finds the director's alter ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), in his mid-30s. Relatively content with his young, beautiful lover, Sabine (Dorothée), Antoine still runs from woman to woman, looking to fill the gap in his life--a void that exists because of his inability to commit in relationships and because of his mother's recent death. As Antoine gains self-awareness, slowly comprehending the reasons for his emptiness, he reflects back on his various relationships. These experiences are related in part through black-and-white flashbacks dictated by the pages of his semiautobiographical book, LES SALADES DE L'AMOUR, and also in his current life as Antoine actively seeks out people and places from his past and attempts to reinvent them in the present. This process involves his first love, Collette (Marie-France Pisier); his second love, Christine (Claude Jade), who eventually became his wife and birthed his son, Alfonse; and his wife's violin student, Liliane (Dani). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Jean-Pierre Léaud
France
Best movies:
The 400 Blows (1959)
Day for Night (1973)
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Claude Jade
France
Best movies:
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Trop c'est trop (1975)
Bed & Board (1970)
Marie-France Pisier
Vietnam
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Dorothée
France
Best movies:
My American Uncle (1980)
Love on the Run (1979)
The Other One's Mug (1979)
Dani
France
Best movies:
Day for Night (1973)
Story of Women (1988)
Love on the Run (1979)
Daniel Mesguich
Algeria
Best movies:
L'Allée du roi (1996) (series)
L'Affaire Salengro (2009) (TV movie)
L'Affaire Dreyfus (1994) (series)
Julien Bertheau
Algeria
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Jury of One (1974)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Anne Kreis
Best movies:
Jury of One (1974)
Love on the Run (1979)
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)
Jean-Pierre Ducos
Best movies:
Light Years (1988) - narrator
Love on the Run (1979)
The Sentinel (1992)
André Dussollier
France
Best movies:
Amelie (2001)
Shut Up! (2003)
And Now My Love (1974)
Emmanuel Clot
France
Best movies:
Love on the Run (1979)
Monique Dury
Best movies:
Small Change (1976)
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Love on the Run (1979)