À Nos Amours (1983)

An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.

Director:

Maurice Pialat

Writers:

Arlette Langmann (scenario and dialogue), Maurice Pialat (scenario and dialogue)

Stars:

Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sandrine Bonnaire	...	Suzanne
Maurice Pialat	...	Le père
Christophe Odent	...	Michel
Dominique Besnehard	...	Robert
Cyril Collard	...	Jean-Pierre
Jacques Fieschi	...	Le beau-frère
Valérie Schlumberger	...	Marie-France
Evelyne Ker	...	La mère
Pierre Novion	...	Adrien
Tsilka Theodorou	...	Fanny
Cyr Boitard	...	Luc
Anne-Marie Nivelle	...	Mère Jean-Pierre
Anne-Sophie Maillé	...	Anne
Pierre-Loup Rajot	...	Bernard
Jean-Paul Camail	...	Angelo

Storyline

Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour. When he leaves home, the mother becomes a little bit neurotic. And Suzanne's brother Robert, begins to beat her as a punishment.

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Plot Keywords:

promiscuous woman | promiscuity | man hits a woman | multiple lovers | sexual promiscuity | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

R

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [France]

Country:

France

Language:

French English

Release Date:

16 November 1983 (France)

Also Known As:

To Our Loves

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films du Livradois, Gaumont, France 3 (FR 3)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to the director, the final dinner scene was completely improvised.

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Goofs

In the sequence with the American, Suzanne's outfit changes from a one-shoulder black dress with white stripes trimming just the top of the bodice, to a one-shoulder black&white striped top with a black skirt, and back again.

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Quotes

Suzanne: I'm only happy when I'm with a guy.

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Connections

References Band of Outsiders (1964)

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Soundtracks

The Cold Song
Henry Purcell (as Percell)
interprété par Klaus Nomi
disques RCA

User Reviews

How can anybody get bored watching a film like this?

Others have already said that "À nos amours" is a great film, even more have said that Sandrine Bonnaire was a knockout in her demanding rôle as Suzanne. There is a sort of timeline, a beginning and an end, but this is really a film about a personal journey through a part of Suzanne's late adolescence. Young people who have watched the film recently are sometimes very annoyed with Suzanne, but this only proves that Miss Bonnaire has made them care about her character even to the point that they perhaps want to shake her, to take her into a corner and tell her what mistakes she is making. There is also a conflict which some pretend had disappeared by the end of the "swinging sixties" - the generation gap between the sexual mores of parents and adolescents, which was of course still real in the early eighties and remains so in many cultures. Unpredictable behaviour (by Suzanne's brother, for example) is also a real part of family life for many young people. Every time I watch the film (and I have seen it very often, as I used it in my French classes more than once) I notice details which had escaped me or which I had forgotten. Pialat made other great films, but "À nos amours" remains my favourite. If possible watch it in French, with subtitles if necessary - but see it before you die!