Cinema
À nos amours
Maurice Pialat · 1983
Synopsis
Suzanne is fifteen and spends the summer at a holiday camp. Back in Paris, she lives amid the quarrels of a family that is falling apart: her father, Roger, her mother, Betty, and her elder brother, Robert. Suzanne goes from one boy to another, in search of a love she cannot manage to feel, while the tensions in the house keep rising.
Context
The screenplay, written by Arlette Langmann and Pialat, comes from an older project, Les Filles du faubourg, which lack of funds led them to transpose from the sixties to contemporary Paris. Sandrine Bonnaire, who had never acted, was chosen on her single audition, and Pialat himself plays the father. The film was released on 16 November 1983; Criterion counts it among the peaks of French cinema of the eighties.
Who it is for
About an hour and forty minutes; a film in a raw style, with scenes cut short, which never explains itself.
Prizes and reception
Prix Louis-Delluc in 1983, then César for best film and for most promising actress for Sandrine Bonnaire in 1984.
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