Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
July 4–August 30, 2019
This series surveys the career of a French New Wave icon, from his youthful roles as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel to his embodiment of a dying Louis XIV.
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Love on the Run
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The Mother and the Whore
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The 400 Blows
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The Death of Louis XIV
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
France, 1959Imported Print
BAMPFA Student Committee PickThursday, July 4 7 PMView DetailsA fifteen-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud made his first appearance as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel in this quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.
Masculine Feminine
Jean-Luc Godard
France, 1966Saturday, July 6 8:15 PMView DetailsLéaud stars as one of Godard’s “children of Marx and Coca-Cola”—the young people of Paris in 1965, choosing between la tendresse and politics.
Stolen Kisses
François Truffaut
France, 1968Sunday, July 7 7 PMView DetailsLéaud returns as Truffaut’s quintessential dreamer Antoine Doinel, flitting through 1968 Paris in search of love and livelihood. With short Antoine and Colette.
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
France, 1959Imported Print
BAMPFA Student Committee PickSunday, July 14 4:30 PMView DetailsA fifteen-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud made his first appearance as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel in this quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.
Bed and Board
François Truffaut
France, 1970Wednesday, July 17 7 PMView DetailsIn this bittersweet fourth installment in Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel saga, Léaud’s character endures the travails of young married life.
Love on the Run
François Truffaut
France, 1979Saturday, July 27 6 PMView DetailsIn 1979, Truffaut and Léaud return for a final look at Antoine Doinel, now in his thirties, but perennially adolescent.
Weekend
Jean Luc Godard
France, 1967Friday, August 2 8:30 PMView Details“Godard’s vision of bourgeois cataclysm. . . . A savage Swiftian satire, it traces a new Gulliver’s travels through the collapsing consumer society as a married couple set out for a weekend jaunt” (Time Out). Léaud has a revolutionary cameo.
Day for Night
François Truffaut
France, 1973Imported Print
Saturday, August 17 8 PMView DetailsLéaud joins an ensemble cast for a behind-the-scenes romantic comedy in which the love interest is cinema itself. “Truffaut’s droll and generous celebration of filmmaking remains an enchanting experience” (New York Times).
La vie de Bohème
Aki Kaurismäki
France, 1992Wednesday, August 21 7 PMView DetailsKaurismäki’s update of Henri Murger’s novel is “a fine, deceptively querulous comedy that mocks the conventions of art and romantic love while . . . exalting them as the only means of salvation” (New York Times). Léaud puts in a brief but pivotal appearance.
The Mother and the Whore
Jean Eustache
France, 1973BAMPFA Collection
Friday, August 23 7 PMView DetailsLéaud gives perhaps his greatest performance as a castaway from the sixties and the sexual revolution, waffling between two women, in Jean Eustache’s chronicle of disenchantment in post-1968 Paris.
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas
France, 1996Sunday, August 25 7 PMView DetailsOlivier Assayas casts Hong Kong icon Maggie Cheung as an actress suffering through ego battles and other disasters on a French indie film shoot, with a classically irascible Léaud as director.
La Chinoise
Jean Luc Godard
France, 1967Wednesday, August 28 7 PMView DetailsGodard’s 1967 Pop-agitprop portrait of revolutionary youth, including an ardent Léaud. “Feels like a trial run for the May 1968 revolution. See it by any means necessary” (Time Out New York).
The Death of Louis XIV
Albert Serra
France, 2016Friday, August 30 7:45 PMView DetailsSerra’s masterful film brings us inside the bedchamber of the dying King Louis XIV, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud in a performance the Los Angeles Times called “a magnificent stare into the abyss.”