À Nos Amours
À Nos Amours (, To Our Loves) is a 1983 French coming-of-age drama film directed by Maurice Pialat, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arlette Langmann. It stars Sandrine Bonnaire, Dominique Besnehard, Évelyne Ker, Anne-Sophie Maillé, Cyr Boitard, Christophe Odent, Maïté Maillé, Pierre-Loup Rajot and Cyril Collard. The plot follows a 16-year-old girl, Suzanne (Bonnaire), as she experiences her sexual awakening and becomes promiscuous to escape her troubled home life. À Nos Amours won the César Award for Best Film in 1984.
Plot
Suzanne is a 16-year-old girl who lives in an apartment in Paris with her furrier parents and her older brother Robert, a writer. While staying at a summer camp with her friends, she sneaks out to meet her boyfriend Luc. When she rebuffs Luc's sexual advances, he assumes she is tired of him and complains about not seeing her as often as he would like. At a bar that night, Suzanne meets an American teenage boy and later loses her virginity to him. In the morning, she feels guilty for cheating on Luc, but after returning to Paris, she breaks up with him and becomes increasingly promiscuous.
Awards
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| author | Arlette Langmann Maurice Pialat |
|---|---|
| award | César Award for Best Film Louis Delluc Prize |
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Maurice Pialat |
| editor | Sophie Coussein Valérie Condroyer Yann Dedet |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | boarding school cheat dinner party double date engage first time furrier inner peace love morning older brother one night plan san diego summer camp teenage boy wed young man |
| musicBy | Klaus Nomi |
| producer | Micheline Pialat |
| productionCompany | France 3 Cinéma Gaumont Les Films du Livradois |
| publisher | Gaumont Distribution |
| theme | independent teen drama |