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Bed and Board (1970)

Bed and Board poster
Original title
Domicile conjugal
Directed by
François Truffaut
Genre
comedy drama, romantic comedy
Country
France
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 309 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Antoine Doinel and Christine are now married and living in a Paris apartment. The film follows their domestic routines, small arguments, and the arrival of a baby as Antoine starts a new job and becomes briefly infatuated with a Japanese woman.

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What happens

Bed and Board (French: Domicile conjugal, lit. 'Marital Home') is a 1970 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut, and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade. It is the fourth in Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses (1968), depicting the married life of Antoine (Léaud) and Christine (Jade). Love on the Run concluded the story in 1979. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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