Naked Childhood (1968) ( L'enfance nue ) ( Me )

Naked Childhood (1968) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: L'enfance nue
Alternate Title: Me
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Maurice Pialat

Written By:
Arlette Langmann
Maurice Pialat

Actors:
Michel Terrazon ..... François
Linda Gutemberg ..... Simone
Raoul Billerey ..... Roby
Pierrette Deplanque ..... Josette
Marie-Louise Thierry ..... Madame Minguet
René Thierry ..... Minguet
Henri Puff ..... Raoul
Marie Marc ..... Meme
Maurice Coussonneau ..... Letillon

Synopsis:

One of the earth-shaking feature debuts in the history of cinema, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance-nue (Naked-Childhood) provides a perspective on growing-up that rejects both sentimentality and modish cynicism. Its unflinching, but also warmly accommodating, outlook on childhood attracted François Truffaut to take on the role as co-producer of Pialat's film - which, ironically, exists as much as a response to Truffaut's own debut The 400 Blows as that film was to the 'cinema of childhood' that came before the New Wave. First-time actor Michel Tarrazon plays the young François, a provincial orphan whose destructive behaviour precipitates his relocation from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. In the course of this transition, Pialat's film presents the turbulence of François's unmoored existence, and his explosive reactions to the contradictory emotions it engenders. This is the naked portrait of a soul's - and an entire society's - dysfunction, before the moment of reconciliation.

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.

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