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L'Enfance Nue(Masters of Cinema Series)(2 disc)

 

 

Written and Directed by Maurice Pialat

France 1967 / Drama / Childhood / Coming-of-Age / Social Problem / Psychological / 80 min / Color / Monaural /
1.66: 1 Widescreen Anamorphic / PAL /  In French with Optional English Subtitles

 

Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutemberg , Raoul Billerey , Marie-Louise Thierry, Rene Thierry, Maurice Coussonneau .

A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is sent to another home where he is cared for by an elderly couple. The boy takes to the woman, a kindly grandmother who reaches out to the disturbed boy. His deliberate disobedience lessens somewhat in his new environment, but he is arrested after throwing bolts at cars from a bridge. The boy tries to overcome his mother's rejection and struggles to boost his self image in this childhood drama.

 
       

Bonus Features:

• New anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio

• New and improved English subtitle translations

• 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 conducted by former Cahiers du cinéma editor-in-chief, and current director of the Cinémathèque Française, Serge Toubiana

• 32-minute 1973 interview with Maurice Pialat, from the programme Champ contre-champ

• CHOSES VUES AUTOUR DE L’ENFANCE NUE [OBSERVATIONS: AROUND L’ENFANCE NUE] (1969) — 50-minute documentary by Roger Stéphane 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 star of L’Enfance-nue

• The film’s original trailer, along with trailers for other Maurice Pialat films to be released by The Masters of Cinema Series