What films influenced Baisers volés?

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must ch

Year1968

CountryFrance

DirectorFrançois Truffaut

MovementFrench New Wave

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Linklater has spoken about the influence of Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel films, which follow Jean-Pierre Léaud’s character from adolescence to middle age. Indeed, the first Before movie, set in Paris, features a French protagonist and an American protagonist wandering the streets, exchanging witty banter, and falling in love—much like Antoine Doinel’s encounter with an American tourist in Stolen Kisses.

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