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The incomparable Sandrine Bonnaire, in her first film, plays Suzanne, a 17-year-old driven by the power her impetuousness holds over others. In this, she is very like the film's director. At home in Paris, Suzanne is the eye of the family storm, her sexuality ratcheting up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother and insecure mother, and sending her father (director Maurice Pialat) out of the house. Attuned to Bonnaire's subtle signaling, the film simmers, then erupts.
35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 100 min. DIR: Maurice Pialat. SCR: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat. CAST: Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker, Dominique Besnehard.
