The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Antoine Doinel

Claude Jade
as Christine Darbon

Delphine Seyrig
as Fabienne Tabard

Michael Lonsdale
as Georges Tabard

Daniel Ceccaldi
as Lucien Darbon

Claire Duhamel
as Madame Darbon

Harry-Max
as Monsieur Henri

André Falcon
as Monsieur Blady

Catherine Lutz
as Catherine

Martine Ferrière
as Head Saleswoman of the Shoe Store
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At times Jean-Pierre Léaud's "Doinel" character reminded me a little of Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp" as he works his way through this engaging comedy about the lives and loves of a man whom, having just left the army, must adjust to civilian life. Initially, he lucks out as his girlfriend "Christine" (...