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Love At Twenty

1962, Movie, NR, 110 mins

Love At Twenty: Review

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An international compilation film best known for its Truffaut episode, "Antoine and Colette," the second installment of his "Antoine Doinel" series begun in THE 400 BLOWS. Conceived by French producer Roustang, the film is built on the theme of being 20 years old or, as he would put it, "the inscrutable youth of the atomic age and technological civilization." Five young filmmakers contributed: Francois Truffaut (France), Renzo Rossellini (Italy), Shintaro Ishihara (Japan), Marcel Ophuls (West Germany), and Andrzej Wajda (Poland). Truffaut's episode has Leaud relocate to across the street from the girl he loves only to discover that her parents like him more than she does. In Rossellini's segment a young man juggles relationships with a young woman and an older one. Ishihara's piece has a love-maddened, working-class lad kill his girlfriend--but fail, because of class differences, to win the wealthy girl he loves. Ophuls' segment is far more optimistic. A photographer on a stopover in Munich gets a girl pregnant. After arriving home he learns what has happened and returns, marries the girl, and soon falls in love with her. Wajda's episode differs from the others; it is told from an older person's point of view (not surprising, considering that at age 35 he was the eldest of the directors). A middle-aged man saves a young girl who has slipped into a polar bear pit in a zoo. Later, at a party to which he is invited by two teenage witnesses, he relates an account of his past as a resistance fighter. The party-goers get him drunk, tease him, and sing him a song about a "sleepy old bear" before they kick him out. leave a comment
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