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VERY CONFUSED RE: Antoine and Collette

posted 21 years ago by mredamon
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I found this movie very confusing when viewing as a bridge between 400 Blows and Stolen Kisses. Christine has the same last name as Collette, and exactly the same dynamics of relationship to our hero, not to mention the same exact unusually friendly relations of our hero with her parents. But her name is different. It seems clear to me that Christine is supposed to be the same person that Antoine falls in love with in "Antoine and Collette". But if that was Truffaut's intention, WHY change her name? What is he trying to convey?

Am I stupid?

PLEASE HELP

[–] GiveMeFilm 21 years ago

I thought Collette came back in Love on the Run. I think they're supposed to be different people. Not that it matters, I don't think. I'm sure with a 20 year span between all of the movies, they really were sequels only as devices.

[–] snucker 20 years ago

christine does not have the same last name as collette, and they are meant to be two different people. Antoine always liked girls with nice families, petite bouregois girls with nice families, that's why christine and collette are so similar. Christine's last name is Darbon (before she got married to Antoine), and Darbon is the last name of the actor who played collette's father. confusing huh? truffaut likes to have these little in-jokes between films, in that some names of characters derive from names of people he knew or actors he worked with.

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[–] Joe Fixit 19 years ago

Collette and Christine aren't the same person. Collette has a short cameo in Stolen Kisses, when Antoine sees her on the street with her husband Albert, who was also in Antoine & Collette, and their baby.

"I'm telling you guys. You're gonna want that cowbell."

[–] prodigylover 16 years ago

I have a question I hope someone can shed some light on.

At the end of the film, Albert says that he and Antoine have meant once before. Just to be sure, we never actually see them meet (right?) -- so when are we to assume they met? Hasn't it already been established that Antoine doesn't hang out with any of Colette's other friends?

As is, I just figured it's supposed to be a final insult, twisting the knife so to speak. It one thing to find out the one you love is seeing someone else, it's another to realize that it's someone you know (or have met unawares).