Product Details

• Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Bernadette Lafont, Gerard Blanc
• Directors: Francois Truffaut
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• DVD Release Date: September 7, 1999
• Run Time: 47 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JLTN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,146 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Two Short Films by François Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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François Truffaut's 1957 short "Les Mistons" (roughly translated to "The Brats") is an early testament to Truffaut's affinity with kids and his first exploration of impossible love. Five boys palling around one summer fall for a teen beauty, but as the narrator (one of the five) describes, "Too young to love Bernadette, we decided to hate her--and torment her." These adolescent boys are neither cute nor innocent, but Truffaut sympathizes with the frustration born of budding hormones and sexual mystery. In 1962, he revisited similar territory in the sketch "Antoine and Collette." The second film to feature alter ego Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), it was originally made for the omnibus film Love at Twenty but has outlived its companion shorts. As romantic and gently ironic as The 400 Blows is harsh and haunting, this modest 20-minute lark finds a teenage Antoine pursuing the lovely, lithe 20-year-old Colette (Marie-France Pisier) like a lovesick puppy dog. The comic sweetness of this episode sets the tone for all future Doinel films, and Léaud, who matured into the poster boy for the French new wave, displays the lanky charm and self-effacing egotism that propelled him through some of the greatest films of the next two decades. --Sean Axmaker

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Truffaut deserves a viewing., October 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Two Short Films by François Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette) (DVD)

You may be a bit disappointed about the length of the DVD. Les Mistons is 17 minutes. Antoine and Collette is 30 minutes. But these two shorts are among Truffaut's best work. Note that Antoine and Collette is letterboxed despite not being noted on the packaging. Les Mistons was 1.33 to 1 when I saw it on film 20 years ago so I'm going to guess that is the correct ratio.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars GREAT movies, LOUSY dvd, April 21, 2002

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"prycehowell" (san antonio, texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Short Films by François Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette) (DVD)

I am reviewing the dvd itself, not the 2 short films by Truffaut, which are great. You cannot watch the entire film of Antoine & Colette, because the picture freezes at 23 mins. into a 30 min. film. This is a manufacturing defect of which I informed Fox-Lorber well over a year ago. I must have purchased over ten copies from different sources at that time. All were the same on every dvd player I tried. Apparently Fox-Lorber doesn't care, because they keep re-issuing the dvd without fixing the problem. They have the same problem with their dvd release of Mrs. Dalloway. BE WARNED!!!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars MYSTERY GIRLS, April 21, 2000

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Daniel S. "Daniel" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Short Films by François Truffaut (Les Mistons / Antoine et Colette) (DVD)

Two years before LES 400 COUPS, french director François Truffaut shot LES MISTONS (1957), a short movie dealing with children and a young couple. Gérard Blain and Bernadette Lafont impersonate the lovers followed by the bunch of " mistons ". Both actors will become, with Jean-Claude Brialy who appears briefly as a character of the movie chosen by Gérard and Bernadette, THE actors of the french " Nouvelle Vague " (1958-1965).

It's quite strange to find in LES MISTONS a lot of themes Truffaut will treat in his next movies, for instance the tragic love affair (DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT, L'HISTOIRE D'ADELE H, etc...), the children (LES 400 COUPS, L'ARGENT DE POCHE).

ANTOINE ET COLETTE has been shot in 1962 for L'AMOUR A 20 ANS, a movie composed of four different films about the same theme. It's a movie absolutely necessary for those of you interested in the saga of Antoine Doinel, the cinematographic double of François Truffaut and young hero of THE 400 COUPS.

Since a dozen movies of François Truffaut are now available in the DVD standard zone 1, this DVD could be a valuable addition to your library.

Good image and sound transfer.

A DVD for the curious ones.