To Our Loves (1983) ( À nos amours ) ( To Our Romance (Suzanne) )

To Our Loves (1983) (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Original Title: À nos amours
Alternate Title: To Our Romance (Suzanne)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Maurice Pialat

Written By:
Arlette Langmann
Maurice Pialat

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Maurice Pialat's serene, perilous masterwork provides the movie romance a definitive check and eminently deceptive balance - the X scratched on top of the O. In one of the astonishing film debuts, Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist - diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being. Woven through with indelible images and heart-stopping moments (and culminating in the infamous 'dinner party scene'), A nos amours. [To Our Romance. / Here's to Love.] is a pure creation, a film that will live so long as there's still either movies or love.

Suzanne is enjoying life, sneaking out to fool around with her boyfriend, flirting with sailors until two key events alter her life and drive her into a unfulfilling cycle of pleasure seeking--she sleeps with an American which drives off her boyfriend and her father leaves the family for another woman. After this she bounces from boy to boy and relationships with her mother and brother escalate to violence. She continues to seek happiness in life without knowing how to love.

Suzanne is 15 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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