One of those holy-grail 1970’s movies, and now that it’s been nicely restored for the HD streaming generation, we can watch and forget it and move on. Jean-Pierre Leaud, soon after Out 1 and the second to last Doinel movie, strutting around wearing multiple scarves, frequenting cafes and being self-confidently aimless. Sharp b/w image with fades between scenes, but it’s mainly a writery movie, with wall-to-wall dialogue.

Colin and Sarah:

JPL lives with Out 1‘s Sarah and mooches off her, but they date other people openly. I imagine part of the movie’s appeal comes from this idea of the sexually free young French people. JPL loved Isabelle Weingarten (her follow-up to Four Nights of a Dreamer) but she’s getting married, so he latches onto nurse Françoise Lebrun (who had not many major roles until last year’s Vortex), dating her in front of Sarah, who becomes jealous. Full of film references (per Labuza, “more than a bit forced for a character we never see once go to the movies”).

JPL and Isabelle:

JPL and Lebrun: