Bed and Board

1970 · directed by François Truffaut

Rating

74/100

Hit

no

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Bed and Board (1970), directed by François Truffaut, rates 74/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Jean-Pierre Léaud
• Claude Jade
• Daniel Ceccaldi
• Claire Duhamel
• Hiroko Matsumoto
• Daniel Boulanger
• Silvana Blasi
• Barbara Laage
• Claude Véga
• Danièle Girard

Crew

• Néstor Almendros — Director of Photography
• Agnès Guillemot — Editor
• Antoine Duhamel — Original Music Composer
• Bernard Revon — Screenplay
• Claude de Givray — Screenplay
• François Truffaut — Screenplay

More from François Truffaut

1. The 400 Blows (1959) — 100/100 · hit
2. Day for Night (1973) — 87/100 · hit
3. Jules and Jim (1962) — 84/100 · hit
4. Stolen Kisses (1968) — 83/100 · hit
5. The Wild Child (1970) — 82/100 · hit
6. Small Change (1976) — 80/100 · hit

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