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Donnie DuPree

Antoine Doniel: Endgame

4 years 10 months ago

L'amour en fuite (Love on the Run) is the fifth and final Antoine Doinel film, and I was all ready to lament how it was too bad Truffaut died 5 years later or perhaps we could have checked on this character a few more decades, and while it's still sad Truffaut died so young, Love on the Run really isn't calling for more in the series. This is a glorified clip show. I understand the idea. A mid-life crisis (way too early for that, but Truffaut, a decade ahead in age, possibly was) brings on cause for examining memories, and if Doinel is partly Truffaut, then he's examining those memories as they've been fictionalized (Doinel does the same because he put them in a novel, which almost makes you wonder about the relationship between the films and objective reality, but only almost), and so on. Well, a good third of the run time is devoted to footage from the first four films, giving short shrift to the new story being told. Along the way, we revisit other characters from the cycle, to find out what happened to Antoine's mother, or to Colette, or Christine. And you may want that closure, it's not uninteresting. If 9 years had passed for me since the last one, maybe I would have grokked the nostalgia (you can only say grok if you're being nostalgic), but I saw them all over the past two years, and the last three, inclusively, over the past two days. So I felt impatient and frustrated through most of the experience.

3 years 9 months ago