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With his raw style of filmmaking Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema and the scorching nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut the dynamic fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne a sixteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself) ineffectual mother and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence nos amours is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema.System Requirements:Running T
With his raw style of filmmaking Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema and the scorching nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut the dynamic fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne a sixteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself) ineffectual mother and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence nos amours is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema.System Requirements:Running Time 102 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 715515018524 Manufacturer No: CC1635DDVD
Some viewers might watch A nos amours--about a young woman who uses sexual encounters as a refuge from family strife--seeking something salacious; those viewers will likely be traumatized by the movie's startling, raw, and disturbing emotional force. Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond, Monsieur Hire) makes her remarkable debut as Suzanne, who at 15 has a mix of tender and hollow experiences with men. But when her father (played by the movie's maverick director, Maurice Pialat) leaves, her brother and mother implode and turn their frustrations on Suzanne with brutal force. Pialat (Loulou, Van Gogh), like John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence), uses a deceptively simple style to capture performances that seem almost painfully naked and unfiltered by an actor's consciousness. Pialat is particularly attuned to the interplay of the family--you can almost touch the emotional threads between father, daughter, brother, and mother as they struggle with and against each other. When the absent father returns home in the middle of a dinner party, the tension pops off the screen. The intimacy of A nos amours is an amazing achievement--sometimes hypnotic, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking, always compelling. --Bret Fetzer
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Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 6 June 2006
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0715515018524 UPC: 715515018524
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