Bad Starters (1976)
"Les mal partis" (original title)

15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.

Director:

Sébastien Japrisot

Stars:

France Dougnac, Olivier Jallageas, Marie Dubois

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
France Dougnac	...	Clotilde
Olivier Jallageas	...	Denis Leterrand
Marie Dubois	...	La mère supérieure
Jean Gaven	...	Gargantua
Richard Leduc	...	Poupée
Pascale Roberts	...	Mme Leterrand
Bernard Verley	...	M. Leterrand
Mark Lesser	...	Pierrot
Yves Dangerfield	...	Prieffin
Martine Kelly	...	Madeleine
Fred Personne	...	Le confesseur
René Morard	...	Le boulanger
Monique Mélinand	...	La boulangère
René Havard	...	Le curé du village
Oskar Freitag	...	Le déserteur allemand (as Oscar Freitag)

Storyline

15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.

---

Plot Keywords:

nun | priest | nun in love | nunsploitation

---

Genres:

Romance

---

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 February 1976 (France)

Also Known As:

Bad Starters

Company Credits

Production Co:

Greenwich Film Productions

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

User Reviews

Another nun's story

Jean-Baptiste Rossi is none other than Sebastien Japrisot (it's an anagram) who wrote such thrillers as "L'Ete Meurtrier" or "La Dame Dans L'Auto Avec des Lunettes et un Fusil " .

The critics were very hard on "les mal partis" when it was theatrically released.Based on a autobiographic novel,it is ,at least to my eyes, more palatable than the aforementioned thrillers.Denis is a young bourgeois ,in a junior high school where a supervisor (Gargantua!)gives the students a rough time.Denis needs something new.He falls in love with Clotilde.But she is a nun.She realizes it's a forbidden love.But passion grows stronger...and the society is not prepared to accept it.