Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 294: Mon Oct 21

Naked Childhood (Pialat, 1968): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm


This 35mm presentation, which is also being screened on November 2ndis part of the ‘Maurice Pialat and the New French Realism’ season. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
A volatile realist who's often been compared to John Cassavetes, Maurice Pialat started out as a painter and a documentary filmmaker, though in contrast to most realist works (as well as most paintings) his movies are too intimate to date very much. He was 43 when he made his first feature, Naked Childhood (1968), a nonjudgmental and unsentimental look at a troubled, abandoned ten-year-old boy who's shuttled between foster parents. (Francois Truffaut served as coproducer, though Pialat was a sworn enemy of the New Wave.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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