À nos amours
To Our Loves | Auf das, was wir lieben
A nos amours, un film de Maurice Pialat. © 1983 Gaumont / France 3 Cinéma. Collection Gaumont.
Cyrill Collard, Sandrine Bonnaire
À nos amours | To Our Loves | Auf das, was wir lieben by Maurice Pialat
FRA 1983, Retrospective
A nos amours, un film de Maurice Pialat. © 1983 Gaumont / France 3 Cinéma. Collection Gaumont.
Sandrine Bonnaire, Pierre-Loup Rajot
À nos amours | To Our Loves | Auf das, was wir lieben by Maurice Pialat
FRA 1983, Retrospective
A nos amours, un film de Maurice Pialat. © 1983 Gaumont / France 3 Cinéma. Collection Gaumont.
Sandrine Bonnaire
À nos amours | To Our Loves | Auf das, was wir lieben by Maurice Pialat
FRA 1983, Retrospective
A nos amours, un film de Maurice Pialat. © 1983 Gaumont / France 3 Cinéma. Collection Gaumont.
Suzanne is 16 and she sleeps around. Luc, whom she loves, is the only man she doesn’t sleep with. Instead, she breaks up with him. Suzanne says the only time she is happy is when she is with a guy. Her behaviour leads to conflict with her parents, Polish immigrants. She first tangles with her father, to whom she confesses her sadness. After he leaves the family for another woman, Suzanne faces off against her mother and brother, who berate and beat her. To get away, the young woman goes to boarding school and marries young. But she doesn’t stay with her young husband … “You could be 15 again with me,” Luc pleads in a touching attempt to win back Suzanne’s affection. It is an apt commentary on her early loss of youth and empathy – “It’s as if my heart had run dry”. This character study of a young woman in a dysfunctional family who herself realises that she is emotionally impaired deconstructs the old myths of a “glorious youth”. The film was largely improvised and newcomer Sandrine Bonnaire won a César for her portrayal of a girl both radiant and perverse standing at the abyss of adolescence.
With
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Evelyne Ker
- Dominique Besnehard
- Maurice Pialat
- Anne-Sophie Maille
- Christophe Odent
- Cyr Boitard
- Maïté Maillé
- Pierre-Loup Rajot
- Cyril Collard
Crew
| Director | Maurice Pialat |
| Screenplay | Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat based on “Les filles du faubourg” by Arlette Langmann |
| Cinematography | Jacques Loiseleux |
| Editing | Yann Dedet, Sophie Coussein, Valérie Condroyer |
| Music | Henry Purcell |
| Vocals | Klaus Nomi |
| Sound | Jean Umansky |
| Art Directors | Jean-Paul Camail, Arlette Langmann |
| Costumes | Valérie Schlumberger, Martha de Villalonga |
| Producer | Micheline Pialat |
| Associate Producer | Emmanuel Schlumberger |
Produced by
Les Films du Livradois
France 2 Cinéma
Additional information
DCP: Gaumont, Neuilly sur Seine