Loulou / Under the Sun of Satan

August 6, 2016 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Loulou (France, 1980)

In a crowded nightclub, Nelly (Isabelle Huppert), bourgeois-bred and married, takes her passions out for an air. She finds herself with Depardieu’s happy, drunken lout, leaves with him, and stays with him. Director Maurice Pialat explores a woman's multifarious desires for sexual liberation, Gérard Depardieu graciously playing along, calibrating his hypersexual character to suit Nelly's perceptions, both of them in it, not forever after, but until desire is played out.

35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 110 min. DIR: Maurice Pialat. SCR: Arlette Langmann. CAST: Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand.

Under the Sun of Satan (France, 1987)

Sous le soleil de Satan

For the film that would win him the Palme d’Or at Cannes, director Maurice Pialat adapted a novel by Bernanos—an author more famously filmed twice by Bresson. The result is a fearless, beautiful, intense film about a priest (Gérard Depardieu), haunted by doubts and dogged by Satan as he struggles to the save the soul of Sandrine Bonnaire’s country waif, a girl both desired and despised, and a murderer, who is always shot in a golden light.

35mm, color, in French with English subtitles, 97 min. DIR: Maurice Pialat. SCR: Maurice Pialat. CAST: Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat.

Part of:

Love Exists: A Maurice Pialat Retrospective

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Loulou / Under the Sun of Satan

Loulou (France, 1980)

Under the Sun of Satan (France, 1987)

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