I missed the ending :(


To my regret I had to interrupt viewing just before the end of the movie. The last scene I saw was a second call to Christine made by Antoine in the restaurant.

Can anyone plese give me some insights on what happened next?

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SPOILERSSSS

I can tell you very quickly... Antoine calls her for the third and they tell each other they want to kiss each other... tenderly. When Antoine goes back to the table, Kyoko is gone.
Next scene, a year later. Antoine is walking nervously outside the door of the apartment (like the opera singer) and Christine is shouting to Antoine to wait for her that she's almost ready (like the singer's wife). Antoine does the same, grabs her coat and purse and throws them to the stairs. The next dorr couple where going up the stairs and find christine picking her stuff up and they say "Now they're really in love".

FIN

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i have just seen this movie, and i donwt like this ending. it feels to me like truffaut says that now they trully love each other, when they have become burgoise (spelling?) like everyone else. i am sure this is not his message, but it sure seemes like it. i haven't seen the last movie about antoine. what are other people's thoughts?

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Yeah...you have to see "Love on the Run" to wrap things up. "Bed and Board" ends on a comic note with Antoine adopting the same actions and temperment as the opera singer. It would seem inappropriate to have this as the last word on a very in depth exploration of Antoine's character.

Truffaut brings things to a more genuine and less comic close in "Love on the Run" as Antoine has to confront the issues of his early childhood.

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What opera are people discussing here?

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I don't know why I am replying to a message from 5 years ago...but heck, I'll do it anyways...the opera singer and his wife were the couple that constantly fought.

If you're not taking any steps forward, you're not moving at all.

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