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Director · Actor · Screenwriter

Maurice Pialat

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13:00
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26 min
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À Nos Amours

Maurice Pialat · 1983

Maurice Pialat’s 1983 drama follows sixteen-year-old Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) as she navigates sexual experience, family fracture and emotional drift in early-1980s Paris. Shot with observational restraint by Jacques Loiseleux and written by Pialat and Arlette Langmann, it avoids exposition, score-driven emotion or narrative resolution, holding Suzanne’s contradictions — her hunger for connection and her inability to sustain it — without judgment or explanation.

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Naked Childhood

Maurice Pialat · 1968

Maurice Pialat’s 1968 debut Naked Childhood follows ten-year-old François as he moves between foster families in working-class France. Shot with unadorned naturalism by Claude Beausoleil and written by Pialat and Arlette Langmann, the film avoids psychology, politics, and exposition — observing instead the quiet contradictions of a child shaped by abandonment and care alike.