Stolen Kisses

By almost almost any standards but those he has already set, François Truffaut has an enormous new success in Stolen Kisses. It's certainly an entertaining movie... By no stretch of any romantic's imagination, though, is Stolen Kisses a great film.

Francois Truffaut has come out with a comedy, sometimes very funny, sometimes relevant to youthful problems, and always balanced between emotional extremes by Gallic worldliness.

This beautifully conceived and brilliantly acted film confirms Truffauts high place in the French humanist tradition. He can stand the comparison with Renoir.

Like the age it surveys, the picture is by turns playful, tense, lovely and breathlessly sensitive to details of mood and manner.