Bed and Board

About Bed and Board

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty.

Bed and Board (1970) is a comedy romance film directed by François Truffaut. The film is filed under relationship, adultery, divorce, and extramarital affair.

Jean-Pierre Léaud takes the lead as Antoine Doinel, Claude Jade as Christine Doinel, Daniel Ceccaldi as Lucien Darbon, and Claire Duhamel as Madame Darbon. It runs 97 minutes and was released in September 1970.

The screenplay is by Bernard Revon and Claude de Givray. Produced by Les Films du Carrosse. It streams on Criterion Channel in the United States.

Stolen Kisses, In the Mood for Love, and A Little Chaos make useful companions to Bed and Board, all filed under brothel. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 319 votes and it carries a PG rating.