{"id":3708,"date":"2007-07-20T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T19:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:39:37","slug":"love-on-the-run-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"Love on the Run (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget, it&#8217;s fiction &#8212; a bit autobiographical, but fiction.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-On-the-Run-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-On-the-Run-Poster-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-On-the-Run-Poster-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-On-the-Run-Poster-79x128.jpg 79w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-On-the-Run-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\n30-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) quarrels with his girlfriend (Dorothee), goes through an amicable divorce with his wife (Claude Jade), and reminisces with his first love (Marie-France Pisier).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flashback Films<\/li>\n<li>Francois Truffaut Films<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThe final installment in Truffaut&#8217;s &#8220;Antoine Doinel&#8221; saga is an unfortunate disappointment. The majority of the movie consists of flashbacks to the previous four films (<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3828\"><em>The 400 Blows<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;Antoine and Colette&#8221; in <a href=\"filmfanatic.org\/?p=9199\"><em>Love at Twenty<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3461\"><em>Stolen Kisses<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3461\"><em>Bed and Board<\/em><\/a>), offering little that&#8217;s new or insightful about Doinel, and occasionally misusing footage in a way that&#8217;s guaranteed to annoy purists. Given that eight years had passed since the latest installment in the series, it&#8217;s easy to imagine that audiences at the time were eager to relive some of their favorite Doinel scenes; but for modern viewers &#8212; who will likely watch the films in a row &#8212; it&#8217;s simply redundant. <\/p>\n<p>Of the original scenes in the movie, none stand out as particularly humorous or insightful; we get the sense that Doinel hasn&#8217;t moved far beyond his limitations with both women and work, but at this point it&#8217;s difficult to have much patience for his immaturity. It&#8217;s also annoying to watch Claude Jade (Doinel&#8217;s wife) continue her long-suffering tolerance for her philandering husband; her patience and good will is truly inhuman, and clearly wishful thinking on Truffaut&#8217;s part. Ultimately, as Peary notes, <em>Love on the Run <\/em> &#8220;doesn&#8217;t do one of cinema&#8217;s great characters justice&#8221;, and is only &#8220;minor Truffaut&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An affectionate &#8212; if unsatisfying &#8212; homage to Truffaut&#8217;s leading character, Antoine Doinel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer-128x96.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Love-on-the-Run-Writer-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but most film fanatics will likely be curious to watch it once, simply to complete the &#8220;must see&#8221; Antoine Doinel series. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0078771\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/movies\/m\/love.on.the.run.1979.shtml\">At a Glance Film Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget, it&#8217;s fiction &#8212; a bit autobiographical, but fiction.&#8221; Synopsis: 30-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) quarrels with his girlfriend (Dorothee), goes through an amicable divorce with his wife (Claude Jade), and reminisces with his first love (Marie-France Pisier). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Flashback Films Francois Truffaut Films French Films Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud Films Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: The final installment in Truffaut&#8217;s &#8220;Antoine Doinel&#8221; saga is an unfortunate disappointment. The majority of the movie consists of flashbacks to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3708\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98139,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/98139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}