Love at Twenty

1962 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love (Antoine et Colette) between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini continues in sketch two about a tough mistress who keeps her lover on a short tether. Shintaro Ishihara renders the only violent episode -- that of a disturbed young worker who becomes a real lady-killer. Marcel Ophüls (son of the late and great Max Ophüls) directs an upbeat tale about a journalist who accepts the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood when a brief fling with a woman ends in a pregnancy. The last vignette, directed by the well-known Polish helmer Andrzej Wajda, is about a brave act by a young soldier whose deed gains him the admiration of a woman, but the response from other men his age is something different. (Eleanor Mannikka: All Movie Guide)

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls · Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni · François Darbon · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Nami Tamura · Koji Furuhata · Barbara Frey · Christian Doermer · Barbara Lass · Zbigniew Cybulski · Geronimo Meynier · Jean-François Adam · Patrick Auffay · Vera Tschechowa · Werner Finck · Wladyslaw Kowalski