L'enfance-nue = Naked childhood
François Truffaut (Produttore cinematografico), Claude Berri (Produttore cinematografico), Jo Siritzky (Produttore cinematografico), Samy Siritzky (Produttore cinematografico), Mag Bodard (Produttore cinematografico), Maurice Pialat (Regista, Sceneggiatore), Arlette Langmann (Sceneggiatore), Michel Tarrazon (Attore), Marie-Louise Thierry (Attore), René Thierry (Attore), Marie Marc (Attore), Henri Puff (Attore), Linda Gutemberg (Attore), Raoul Billery (Attore), Pierrette Deplanque (Attore), Claude Beausoleil, Athos Films (Distributore del film), Stephan Films
The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child. We watch as ten-year-old François (Michel Terrazon) is shuttled from one home to another, his behavior growing increasingly erratic, his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught. In this, his feature debut, Pialat treats that potentially sentimental scenario with astonishing sobriety and stark realism. With its full-throttle mixture of emotionality and clear-eyed skepticism, L'enfance nue (Naked childhood) was advance notice of one of the most masterful careers in French cinema, and remains one of Pialat's finest works
Video online, French, 2014
Kanopy Streaming, [San Francisco, California, USA], 2014