Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses)
Chris Campbell

The DVD is part of the Criterion Collection's The Adventures of Antoine Doinel and it has a few features on the disc that provide more context for the film. While the film is a light comedy, the situation in France in 1968 was completely different with the events of May 1968 and the uproar and the firing of Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque Français. Baisers Volés begins with a shot of the front of the Cinémathèque and the camera then moves over to the military jail where we see Antoine Doinel. One of the extras on the disc is a newsreel of Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard calling for the Cannes Film Festival to be cancelled (which it was). There is also an exerpt from an interview where Truffaut talks about Baisers Volés and explains how it was written and dissects a scene. Now I have to catch up on Truffaut's other films.