Bed & Board

Bed and Board (French: Domicile Conjugal) is a 1970 French film directed by François Truffaut. It belongs to Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses, showing the married life of Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade). Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) married the winsome and intelligent Christine (Claude Jade) from Stolen Kisses. Christine gives violin lessons to children in their living... more

Bed and Board (French: Domicile Conjugal) is a 1970 French film directed by François Truffaut. It belongs to Truffaut's series of five films about Antoine Doinel, and directly follows Stolen Kisses, showing the married life of Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade). Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) married the winsome and intelligent Christine (Claude Jade) from Stolen Kisses. Christine gives violin lessons to children in their living room, and Antoine dyes and sells flowers directly beneath their window. Antoine and Christine are like presexual kids playing at marriage. Whenever we see them in bed together, they're reading. When he reaches over to touch her breasts it's only to point out that they don't match. (He then wants to name them something, like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza or Laurel and Hardy). Later Christine becomes pregnant. Mindful that Antoine is having an affair with a Japanese beauty, Christine decks herself out as a faux Madame Butterfly to greet him one... less