François Truffaut Day

SUNDAY 21st FEBRUARY SHAFTESBURY ARTS CENTRE FILM SOCIETY SPECIAL EVENT

13 Bell Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8AR

Tickets: £9, SAC Members: £8 to include tea and cake

Box Office: 01747 854321 (10.30 - 12.30) www.shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk

Start: 3pm End: 7pm

 

3pm THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS (Les quatre cent coups) (PG)

Dir: François Truffaut, France, 1959, b/w, subtitles, 99 mins

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy

The first of Truffaut’s autobiographical Antoine Doinel series. A sensitive study of a Parisian

youth who turns to crime as a reaction to his inattentive parents.

4.45 Tea and cakes

 

5.25pm LOVE ON THE RUN (L’amour en fuite) (PG)

Dir: François Truffaut, France, 1979, colour and b/w, subtitles, 94 min's

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade

Further romantic adventures of Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, on his quest for love.

Léaud’s final appearance as Doinel.