A Nos Amours (Pialat, 1983): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6pm
This screening is presented by A Nos Amours, with an introduction by David Thompson. A Nos Amours is a collective founded by Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts dedicated to programming, promoting, understanding and enjoying over-looked, under-exposed or especially potent cinema.This film is also being shown on August 17th and 20th. Details here.
Once you've seen this film you might want to read critic Nick
Pinkerton's take on this troubling movie here from the Reverse Shot
website here.
Chicago Reader review:
A 15-year-old French girl (Sandrine Bonnaire,
extraordinary) finds refuge from her troubled family in a series of
casual sexual encounters. The subject invites a certain social-worker
condescension (it's the stuff of TV movies), yet Maurice Pialat's
mise-en-scene allows us no comforting distance from the characters. His
ragged long takes plunge us straight into the action and hold us there,
as if we, too, were combatants in this family war. His unorthodox
dramatic construction rejects the symmetry of classical plotting, and
the narrative has a quirky, self-propelling quality that allows for some
astonishing things to happen. Pialat himself plays the father, whose
disappearance sets the action in motion and whose reappearance makes it
explode.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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