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Roissy Films
Directed by: Maurice Pialat
One of the earth-shaking feature debuts in the history of cinema, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance-nue [Naked-Childhood] provides a perspective on growing-up that rejects both sentimentality and modish cynicism. Its unflinching, but also warmly accommodating, outlook on childhood attracted François Truffaut to take on the role as co-producer of Pialat's film which, ironically, exists as much as a response to Truffaut's own debut The 400 Blows as that film was to the 'cinema of childhood' that came before the New Wave. First-time actor Michel Tarrazon plays the young François, a provincial orphan whose destructive behaviour precipitates his relocation from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. In the course of this transition, Pialat's film presents the turbulence of François's unmoored existence, and his explosive reactions to the contradictory emotions it engenders. This is the naked portrait of a soul's and an entire society's dysfunction, before the moment of reconciliation. L'Enfance-nue represents the ideal introduction to the films of Maurice Pialat an artist whose work resides alongside that of Jean Eustache and Philippe Garrel at the summit of the post-New Wave French cinema.
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Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1/2/3/4/5/6 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
Resolution:
576p/25
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Short Film, Documentary, Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- L'AMOUR EXISTE [LOVE EXISTS] (1960) - Maurice Pialat's poetic 19-minute film about life in the Paris banlieues
- 2003 video interview with co-screenwriter Arlette Langmann, and Pialat-collaborator Patrick Grandperret
- 32-minute French television interview with Maurice Pialat
- OBSERVATIONS: AROUND L'ENFANCE-NUE (1969) - 50-minute documentary shot in the course of L'Enfance-nue's production, examining Pialat's film-in-progress and the plight of foster children
- 2005 video interview with Michel Tarrazon, the young star of the film
- Original French theatrical trailer
- Six more Pialat trailers
- 40-PAGE BOOKLET - containing a new essay by critic and filmmaker Kent Jones, and newly translated interviews with Maurice Pialat
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