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Best movie of this year hands down!

i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent adaptation.

It appears I've walked straight into the middle of a series, not knowing beforehand this was a sequel to Stolen Kisses, which I haven't yet seen. A pity, but in the spirit of Antoine Doinel, I shall accept this misfortune nonchalantly! For about two thirds its runtime Bed and Board is very enjoyable, full of charming characters saying humorous and delightful things. Little moments of relationship interplay are handled with the deftest touch by Truffaut, the acting is first class, and the small Parisian courtyard and surrounding apartments come alive. Unfortunately the film takes an all too simple turn, as Antoine cheats on his wife with an Asian woman, and much of the good grace it has earnt to that point dissipates. To close with a shot of Antoine and Christine's life mimicking the older couple they live alongside was clever storytelling, but wrapped in a very cynical moral. A masterpiece would have had something more brilliant to say.

i loved this movie for the minute observations of different characters , social scenario of a French neighborhood , husband-wife relationship , birth of a baby , and obviously , the husband's affair , while the wife is still in the process of adjusting with her newly acquired status. Every thing ids so natural ! Taking out of the trinket from the waters . meeting the newly found acquaintance in her apartment , going out for dinners and the wife finding out about the affair ! It touches your heart the way this young couple is trying to make their living , the cute baby , the girls' parents , and the hero's witty remarks , that he loves parents , if they are not his own ! Francis , a genius film maker , has a rare quality of observing the shades of human behavior , which is truly gifted . After all the turmoil, the couple does come to terms with each other , as they really love each other , and every thing else is just a passing phase. Perfectly cast , imaginatively pictured , wittily dialogued , this is a real gem of a world classic movie.

In "Bed and Board," the boyish Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) settles down to married life with Christine (Claude Jade). But while it seems like a promising idea for this beloved character to move on to the next phase of his life, the film does not live up to its potential. "Stolen Kisses," the preceding movie, was a romantic comedy with such a consistently sweet and charming tone that it became something more than mere fluff. "Bed and Board" maintains the same sparkling tone for about the first hour. Christine and Antoine's apartment building is inhabited by the quirkiest group of Parisians to come along until "Amélie," thirty years later. (Both movies even have an old man who refuses to leave his apartment.) Indeed, the movie, and its hero Antoine, are in love with quirkiness: Antoine works dyeing flowers and operating remote-controlled model boats, which are even stranger than the odd jobs he held in "Stolen Kisses." There are also some tenderly idiosyncratic scenes between the newlyweds.But "Bed and Board" becomes much less interesting when it aims for a more serious tone and introduces infidelity into the plot: Antoine cheats on Christine with a Japanese woman, Kyoko. To add insult to injury, Kyoko is a blatant stereotype of the "exotic, submissive Asian woman," wearing kimono and writing calligraphy. Maybe Christine and Antoine were always a mismatched couple—Christine is very practical and bourgeois, while Antoine is a fanciful dreamer—but if he has to cheat on her, couldn't he do it with someone amusing?Obviously the Antoine Doinel series dealt with some very serious themes in its first installment, "The 400 Blows." But that movie was a unique, distinctive look inside the head of a troubled 14-year-old boy; however, the serious themes of "Bed and Board" are found in innumerable French movies about infidelity. It's too bad that "Bed and Board" falls so flat in its second half, because its first half is whimsical comedy at its best.

Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other."Domicile Conjugal" is a delightful and very funny "Scenes from a Marriage" by Truffault. His ambiguous alter-ego Antoine Doinel is responsible for hilarious scenes: the dialog in English with his future boss while looking for a job; charging the mother of a student of violin; the surrealistic dialogs with the guy that borrows money from him; his unusual work of maneuvering model boats. The chemistry of Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade is also amazing, with many wonderful dialogs and beautiful scenes. I particularly like their kiss in the wine cellar, which repeats "Baisers Volés", but with Christine having the attitude this time; or when he calls her "my little mother, my little sister, my little daughter" in the cab, and she replies that she would like to be his wife; or their dialog when she is wearing glasses on the bed or when he calls her in the restaurant. "Domicile Conjugal" is a simple but lovely movie. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Domicílio Conjugal" ("Conjugal Domicile")Note: On 14 June 2009. I saw this movie again on DVD.