A Nos Amours - Criterion Collection
by Maurice Pialat
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Actor: Christophe Odent, Cyril Collard, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat, Sandrine BonnaireDirector: Maurice Pialat
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Maurice Pialat
Cinematographer: Jacques Loiseleux
Editor: Sophie Coussein
Producer: Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Producer: Emmanuel Schlumberger
Producer: Micheline Pialat
Writer: Arlette Langmann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of A Nos Amours - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: 5 Star...kidding, right?
Summary: 1 Stars
After about 20 minutes into this movie, you could tell the lack of acting, direction and story. I only picked it up because Criterion released it, and what a mistake.
If you enjoy the trials and faults of a teenage girl, how badly acted here, but not as bad as the director himself, then maybe this ones for you.
Couldn't even finish...beware!
Summary of A Nos Amours - Criterion Collection
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.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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