Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...
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| Isabelle Huppert | ... | Nelly | |
| Gérard Depardieu | ... | Loulou | |
| Guy Marchand | ... | André | |
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Humbert Balsan | ... | Michel |
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Bernard Tronczak | ... | Rémy (as Bernard Tronczyk) |
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Christian Boucher | ... | Pierrot |
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Frédérique Cerbonnet | ... | Dominique |
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Jacqueline Dufranne | ... | Mémère |
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Willy Safar | ... | Jean-Louis |
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Agnès Rosier | ... | Cathy |
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Patricia Coulet | ... | Marité |
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Jean-Claude Meilland | ... | Jean-Claude, le gars du casse |
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Patrick Playez | ... | Thomas |
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Gérald Garnier | ... | Lulu |
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Catherine De Guirchitch | ... | Marie-Jo |
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Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed layabout Loulou, whose charms include focusing his energy into sex. Written by <dbc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
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Pialat films people in extreme emotional situations, usually with several violent scenes. In La Gueule ouverte, he's dealing with the devastating effects on a woman's husband and son as she dies of cancer. In A nos amours, the teenage girl's sexual experimentation leads to violent confrontations with her family. Here we have a rather spoiled young woman who abandons her husband to take up with a sexy ex-con. Her motivation is a little cloudy, since Loulou is incapable of reading or discussing anything more challenging than TV shows; on the other hand, he's got a fabulous body (I wonder why Depardieu never made a sports movie to show off that physique--he would have been great as a rugby player).
The casting is impressive. Isabelle Huppert gives a committed performance as Nelly; her middle class reserve plays well against Depardieu's loutish energy. Depardieu plays Loulou with all the dynamism and charm you could want--see the scene in the bar, where he's stabbed in the gut, runs away and seeks treatment, then soon restarts with Nelly. Guy Marchand, with those coal-black eyes and distressed look, plays Nelly's husband beautifully; it's a fine repeat of their pairing in Diane Kurys's Coup de foudre.