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Naked Childhood  /  Graduate First

Naked Childhood
July 22, 2016 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Naked Childhood  (France, 1968)

L'Enfance nue

François Truffaut was a keen supporter of director Maurice Pialat's first feature, which recalls The 400 Blows in its semi-autobiographical story of a young boy lashing out at life as he’s passed from one foster family to another. When he is placed in the home of an elderly couple, he at last discovers a kind of peace, and can begin to discover the world.

35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 83 min. DIR: Maurice Pialat. SCR: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat. CAST: Michel Terrazon, Raoul Billerey, Maurice Coussonneau.

Graduate First  (France, 1978)

Passe ton bac d'abord…

Director Maurice Pialat's follow up to Naked Childhood (1968) plays as a portrait of "the blank generation" of the 1970s as several high school students enter the netherworld between graduation and the unemployment line.  Drifters in their northern French mining town, they engage in palliative sex or desperate marriage while some head out for the anonymity of Paris, hoping to resist, as long as they can, the social roles they feel being pressed upon them.

35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 86 min.  DIR: Maurice Pialat.  CAST: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane.

Part of: 
Love Exists: A Maurice Pialat Retrospective