Antoine and Colette was made for the 1962 anthology collection Love at Twenty, which also featured shorts from directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda.

He lives in a furnished room by himself in Place Clichy,[1] listening to opera and classical music and spending time with René (Patrick Auffay), his school friend from The 400 Blows.

One day, while attending a Berlioz Music Programme[1] with René, he spots Colette (Marie-France Pisier), a secondary school student, and falls in love for the first time.

Truffaut was influential in helping to select Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda as the other directors who eventually participated in the project.

"[1] Antoine and Colette is a largely autobiographical work, based on 17-year-old Truffaut's infatuation with an unconventional beauty named Liliane Litvin.