Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Phillim There are reasons why Truffaut is in the pantheon of greats. He creates for us simple human beings behaving simply, in everyday settings -- in that most cumbersome of artificial processes: a movie. Truffaut's people f' up, they un-f' up, etc. You laugh a lot, maybe cry a little, maybe get smarter. Looks easy, right? Late 1960s Paris stars in the film, along with Jean-Pierre Léaud (LAY-oh) and Delphine Seyrig, among a couple of dozen other superb actors and comedians.The legendary Truffaut-Léaud co-creation of the character Antoine Doinel continues here from previous films. Doinel is the quintessential impulsive screw-up, with an open heart, and goofy but undeniable sex appeal. Doinel is like Chaplin's little tramp if Chaplin's little tramp had some decent clothes, a sh*t job, and a lot of sex.Delphine Seyrig as Mme Tabard here is the luminous, unattainable goddess-next-door, eternally wise and humble. A more stunning film creature scarcely exists. Her scenes with Léaud are great events in all of cinema.The DVD I viewed contained much fascinating stuff in the extras: documentary material about the tumultuous times during the 1968 film shoot of 'Stolen Kisses' -- student riots, and Truffaut's principal involvement in the mass protest of government interference in the Cinémathèque Française, and subsequent shut-down of the Cannes Film Festival by him, Goddard, and other international film artists. Excellent history lesson.

jotix100 After a stint in the army, Antoine Doinel is released from active duty because of insubordination and ineptitude. The releasing officer does not have kind words for the soon to be civilian young man. As he comes out from the place, he does not take long to find his way to have sex with a prostitute and to reclaim his humble abode in a run down apartment.Antoine is lucky in getting a position at a hotel thanks to the parents of Christine, his on and off girlfriend. It is obvious Antoine is not fit for the position as he bungles a situation where a cheating wife is surprised with her lover in a room where the reception clerk is duped by the older P.I. behind the case. The older detective feels bad for having caused Antoine's the loss of his job and recommends him to apply for a job with his agency.The detective agency proves to be no different from Antoine's previous experiences. His best success in a case is when his superior asks him to infiltrate the shoe store owned by M. Tabard, who feels his employees simply hate him and wants to find out what is he doing wrong. No one is happier to meet Antoine than Fabienne Tabard, the stylish wife of the owner; she sees in Antoine a man she can seduce and who will appreciate her charms. "Stolen Kisses" is a continuation on Francois Truffaut's take on the character that first was examined in his "400 Blows". It is a picaresque comedy because the way Antoine sees the world around him, a society where he does not fit snugly. Mr. Truffaut made a few films around his Antoine Doinel and this one, even 44 years after it was released, still is enjoyable to watch. It is light in tone as the inept young hero of the story goes from one occupation to the next without not knowing where his future will take him. His girlfriend Christine Darbon, is an afterthought in the narrative, although by the end Antoine gets serious about getting more involved, and in a way, settled with the lovely young lady.It would have been inconceivable to think anyone else but Jean-Pierre Leaud, the original Antoine of a few years before, not playing him again. Mr. Leaud had a good working with Mr. Truffaut as they collaborated on different projects together. Best thing in the film is the elegant Delphine Seyrig, playing Fabienne Tabbard, a sophisticated seductress that captures Antoine's vivid imagination. Claude Jade appears as the sweet Christine, the woman Antoine desires. Michael Lonsdale is also perfect as M. Tabard, the shoe store owner. "Stolen Kisses" remains among Francois Truffaut most best comedies, which seen today, evokes a bygone era and the atmosphere of a bygone period in Paris, which was lovingly photographed by Denys Clerval, with a musical score by Antoine Duhanel.

jhailey This film is set against the backdrop of the student revolt of 1968. We know it's going on because images of the protests flicker on the television sets seen by Doinel (and by us) during the course of the movie. One would think that this character would engage in these earth-shaking events - after all, Doinnel is in his early 20s, the age of the protesters - but Truffaut chooses to have Doinnel be indifferent, detached, incurious. These epic events don't engage Doinnel at all. For me, Truffaut's insistence on our noticing Doinnel's detachment is Truffaut's comment on the limits of the student protests -- not unlike Marx's distinction between the way the proletariat and the lumpen-proletariat see their places in society.

marissas75 As soon as "Stolen Kisses" begins, it makes a claim to being one of the most charming movies of all time. There's a lilting French jazz song on the soundtrack and a shot of the Eiffel Tower against a blue sky—a perfect introduction to this comedy about the crazy things people do for love. It's a gentle, loosely structured movie, sometimes farcical and always sweet-natured.Main character Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud, of course) is now in his early twenties and has a job at a private detective agency whose clients tend to be jealous or broken-hearted lovers. His own love life isn't in much better shape, though: he has an on-and-off relationship with a cute violin student named Christine (Claude Jade), but with many distractions along the way. The most important is Fabienne Tabard (Delphine Seyrig), the beautiful, elegant wife of a shoe-store owner (played by a very droll Michel Lonsdale) who has hired the detective agency to investigate why nobody loves him.Though the tone of this movie is very different from that of its excellent predecessor "The 400 Blows," that's not a bad thing. It's nice to know that Antoine can make a generally respectable life for himself, rather than becoming embittered or hardened from his experiences as a juvenile delinquent. He's acquired a sense of humor that helps him get through tough situations—he doesn't get angry when the army gives him a dishonorable discharge, he grins! But enough traces of the old "400 Blows" Antoine remain to let us know it's the same character: the haplessness, the intensity, the love of Balzac. Léaud's performance is extremely winning--how nice that the child actor has turned into a leading man with a talent for comedy.The ending of "Stolen Kisses" is a little abrupt and undermotivated: we never learn why Christine decides she wants Antoine back, nor why Antoine realizes that Christine is "the one." But these kind of quibbles seem mean-spirited—really, could this charming romance end any other way than with the two lovers strolling through a park, accompanied by that same nostalgic jazz song?