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Jean-Pierre Leaud

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400 Blows, The400 Blows, The (1959) Recommended
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy
Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel, TheAdventures Of Antoine Doinel, The (400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run) (1959-1979)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
Francois Truffaut's most enduring cinematic creation, the irrepressible Antoine Doinel (played synonymously by Jean–Pierre Leaud) is…
Testament of OrpheusTestament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)
Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Masculin FemininMasculin Feminin (1966)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot
Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…
Made in U.S.AMade in U.S.A (1966)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marianne Faithful
Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
La ChinoiseLa Chinoise (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto
Five Parisian students dabble in the possibilities of enacting a Mao–ist revolution in the West, in one of dir. Godard's more overt flirtations…
Stolen KissesStolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig
Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
Le Gai SavoirLe Gai Savoir (Joy Of Learning) (1969)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Challenging offering from dir. Godard puts two actors on a soundstage and allows them to dwell on ideologies, concepts and complex understandings of…
Domicile ConjugalDomicile Conjugal (Bed and Board) (1970)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
Serio–comic misadventures of Truffaut's alter–ego, Antoine Doinel, an immature father–to–be who is unsettled in matrimonial…
Two English GirlsTwo English Girls (Anne and Muriel) (1971) Recommended
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
A French writer encounters the delicate dilemma of falling in love with both English sisters at a Welsh coastal cottage. Tantalising romance is…
Day For NightDay For Night (La Nuit Americaine) (1973) Recommended
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud
The blueprint film about film–making – made a few decades before it became fashionable – mirroring the first–hand experiences…
La Maman Et La Putain (the Mother and the Whore)La Maman Et La Putain (the Mother and the Whore) (1974) Recommended
Dir. Jean Eustache
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francoise Lebrun
At just over three and a half hours, this domestic chamber drama – probably the last great film of the French New Wave – is not for the…
Amour en fuite, L'Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier
The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
Detective, TheDetective, The (1985)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday
Late, vague genre piece mismatches big name French stars (Baye, Leaud, and a young Julie Delpy) and trench coat chic with Godard’s newfound…
Irma VepIrma Vep (1996) Aro Favourite
Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard
Ranking up there with the best movies–about–movies, this supremely stylish, sexy film showcases an unseen side of Hong Kong action diva…
What Time Is It There?What Time Is It There? (2001) Recommended
Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Two in the WaveTwo in the Wave (2009) Recommended
Dir. Emmanuel Laurent
Feat. Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Taking us back to the inception of the French New Wave and the emergence of its two heavyweights, Jean–Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, this…
Camille RewindsCamille Rewinds (2012)
Dir. Noemie Lvovsky
Feat. Noemie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Denis Podalydes
A jilted 40–something woman drowns her sorrows to the point of oblivion, sending herself back in time to her sixteenth birthday where she gets…
Death of Louis XIV, TheDeath of Louis XIV, The (La mort de Louis XIV) (2016)
Dir. Albert Serra
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
A master of minimalist portraits of historical figures, Albert Serra directs French New Wave doyen Jean–Pierre Léaud as Louis XIV during the…

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