À nos amours (1983)
(To Our Romance)
Country: FR
Technical: col 102m
Director: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat
Synopsis:
A teenage girl's promiscuous lifestyle brings her into conflict with her family.
Review:
Pialat's Cassavetes-style brand of improvised drama at its most excoriating - or almost - with the young Bonnaire making her mark and the director himself imposing some sort of thespian rigour over proceedings when on the screen. Elsewhere the standard of the acting, and some of the editing decisions, are of variable quality, but the rough-edged approach to retakes and gaping narrative lacunae are all part of the Pialat 'authenticity'. What remains from his piecemeal approach to drama and characterization is a well-caught impression of the peculiar off-handedness of adolescent sexuality; how a young person must learn how to love, and how one girl never quite manages it. As a French Rebel without a Cause it is way over the top in terms of the kind of behaviour you might wish to tolerate for more than an hour and a half.
(To Our Romance)
Country: FR
Technical: col 102m
Director: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat
Synopsis:
A teenage girl's promiscuous lifestyle brings her into conflict with her family.
Review:
Pialat's Cassavetes-style brand of improvised drama at its most excoriating - or almost - with the young Bonnaire making her mark and the director himself imposing some sort of thespian rigour over proceedings when on the screen. Elsewhere the standard of the acting, and some of the editing decisions, are of variable quality, but the rough-edged approach to retakes and gaping narrative lacunae are all part of the Pialat 'authenticity'. What remains from his piecemeal approach to drama and characterization is a well-caught impression of the peculiar off-handedness of adolescent sexuality; how a young person must learn how to love, and how one girl never quite manages it. As a French Rebel without a Cause it is way over the top in terms of the kind of behaviour you might wish to tolerate for more than an hour and a half.
(To Our Romance)
Country: FR
Technical: col 102m
Director: Maurice Pialat
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat
Synopsis:
A teenage girl's promiscuous lifestyle brings her into conflict with her family.
Review:
Pialat's Cassavetes-style brand of improvised drama at its most excoriating - or almost - with the young Bonnaire making her mark and the director himself imposing some sort of thespian rigour over proceedings when on the screen. Elsewhere the standard of the acting, and some of the editing decisions, are of variable quality, but the rough-edged approach to retakes and gaping narrative lacunae are all part of the Pialat 'authenticity'. What remains from his piecemeal approach to drama and characterization is a well-caught impression of the peculiar off-handedness of adolescent sexuality; how a young person must learn how to love, and how one girl never quite manages it. As a French Rebel without a Cause it is way over the top in terms of the kind of behaviour you might wish to tolerate for more than an hour and a half.