page_title: Claude Jade
section_title: Films with François Truffaut
hierarchical_section_title: Claude Jade / Films with François Truffaut
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken in Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg&#160;: Avant-première L'Amour en fuite Luxembourg City Cinéma Marivaux 18 avril 1979 Photo Carlo Hansen Luxembourg
context_page_description: Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade, was a French actress. She is known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love on the Run. Jade acted in theatre, film and television. Her film work outside France included the Soviet Union, the United States, Italy and Japan.
context_section_description: While performing as Frida in Pirandello's Henri IV, in a production by Sacha Pitoëff at the Théâtre Moderne, Jade was discovered by New Wave film director François Truffaut.  He was "completely taken by her beauty, her manners, her kindness, and her joie de vivre", and cast her in the role of Christine Darbon in Stolen Kisses (1968). During the filming, Truffaut fell in love with her, and there was talk of marriage. Truffaut dubbed Claude Jade “French cinema’s little sweetheart” and the director and his muse were soon a couple in real life, although Truffaut changed his mind about marrying her the night before their wedding. American critic Pauline Kael wrote that Jade "seems a less ethereal, more practical Catherine Deneuve". When Baisers volés became a hit, Truffaut promised that one day he would ask Claude Jade to help him continue the series. The director's love shines through his alter-ego Doinel in Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal, 1970) and Love on the Run (1979), as Christine puts up with Antoine's foibles and affairs. The Guardian notes Memorable scenes pass through the mind like a montage: her teaching Antoine the best way to butter toast in the morning, their writing each other little notes, his calling her "my little mother, my little sister, my little daughter" in a taxi, and she replying she would rather be his wife; her attempts to guess Antoine's latest job, amusingly suggesting cab driver or water taster, her reaction when Antoine hangs a scissors on her ring finger, his affectionate response to her wearing glasses in bed, the medium tracking shot of her legs as she stops at a shop for tangerines then heads up the stairs, as one of the neighbourhood men longingly admires them. Playing the same character, Jade appeared in three Truffaut Movies. Truffaut uses the occasion to examine three states, three ages, of his heroine, played with the right middle-class gentility and innocence by Claude Jade: loved from a distance (Stolen Kisses); married and misled (Bed and Board); divorced but still on good terms (Love on the Run).
caption: François Truffaut and Claude Jade while Premiere of their third film Love on the run
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