Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Year1962

CountryFrance

DirectorFrançois Truffaut

MovementFrench New Wave

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I was always obsessed with that. And there's a short film he did, Antoine and Colette, when Antoine's a bit older. He gets an apartment opposite a girl he's obsessed with but it never quite works out. That idea of following someone and checking in with them at different ages, it's pretty clear.

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