Love on the Run

Dir. Francois Truffaut

This is Truffaut's fifth film featuring Jean Pierre Leaud in the part of Antoine Doinel, the first having been made over twenty years ago. In Love on the Run, clips of the preceding films are introduced to comment on elements in Doinel's latest, and the effect is quite [unclear: intiguing] as we see not only Lead, but also other characters and actors age and develop. The whole works as an interesting comment on the relationship between past and present, and if the plot looks a little like a good excuse for a lot of reminiscing, there are more than ample compensations.