À nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) is sixteen years old and she sleeps with a different boy every night. This makes her family mad and her parents even split. She seems to be empty and needs the presence of boys to fill a neverending void. Made in 1983, À nos amours is considered as one of Maurice Pialat’s masterworks with L’enfance nue and Van Gogh. Its subject, sex with a multitude of partners in the world of young adults is still an important one and as of nowadays teenagers seem to start having sex in a younger age than ever before. Pialat’s objective camera works like a documentary observer that captures the life of a family that is torn from inside. The love between the father and the daughter, the love/hate relationship of Suzanne with her mother and the older brother that is involved despite his disgust for all of this.
