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Loulou (1980) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min + 120 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1980 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Maurice Pialat

Written By:
Arlette Langmann

Actors:
Isabelle Huppert ..... Nelly
Gerard Depardieu ..... Loulou
Guy Marchand ..... André
Humbert Balsan ..... Michel
Bernard Tronczak ..... Rémy
Christian Boucher ..... Peirot
Frédérique Cerbonnet ..... Dominique
Jacqueline Dufranne ..... Mémère
Willy Safar ..... Jean-Louis
Agnès Rosier ..... Cathy
Patricia Coulet ..... Marité
Jean-Claude Meilland ..... Jean-Claude, le gars du casse
Patrick Playez ..... Thomas
Gérald Garnier ..... Lulu
Catherine De Guirchitch ..... Marie-Jo

Synopsis:

Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When she meets street thug Loulou (Gerard Depardieu), her middle-class respectability is thrown out the window and she leaves Andre for Loulou. Loulou, who has no job and resorts to robbery to survive, is more than willing to live off Nelly's money. But Andre won't give her up and, in the mind-set of a middle-class bourgeois, tries to convince her to return.

All play and no work means never a dull moment for bored bourgeois Nelly and ex-con Loulou. Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu star in director Maurice Pialat's drama about love, sex and class. Bourgeois Nelly (Huppert) seeks refuge from her violently jealous partner and boss André (Marchand) in the arms of unemployed ex-con Loulou (Depardieu). A one-night-stand quickly turns into something more serious, and Nelly moves in with her new lover. Sex with Loulou is great, life is never boring in his extended demi-monde of drinkers, idlers and petty criminals, and at first Nelly does not mind being the one who pays all the bills while her work-shy partner stays at home. But when she falls pregnant, all the tensions in their relationship rise to the surface, as it becomes unclear whether Loulou will ever be more than Nelly's bit of rough, or indeed whether she wants him to be more.

Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Isabelle Huppert abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed layabout Depardieu. His charms include focusing his energy into sex.

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