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Marie Marc, who plays the ancient mother of an already old couple of foster parents (René and Marie-Louise Thierry), is alone worth seeing—as she sings a folksong off-key, or speaks of her...
The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child.
- François Fournier
Dec 21, 2020 · Later, Social Services puts the boy under the care of elderly couple Memere and Pepere Thierry (played by real-life foster parents Marie-Louise Thierry and Rene Thierry), who are already looking after another troubled teenager named Raoul (Henri Puff).
L’enfance nue. Directed by Maurice Pialat • 1968 • France. Starring Michel Terrazon, Marie-Louise Thierry, René Thierry. The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child.
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As befits Maurice Pialat’s painterly background as well as his insistence on rough-hewn immediacy, the 1.66:1 anamorphic transfer is both rich and gritty, with some particularly sensitive interiors. The sound is clear and spare, with just a wedding sing-along putting its range to the test.
Pialat deservedly receives the lion’s share of attention in the disc’s generous array of supplements, starting with “Autour de L’Enfance Nue,” a 1969 documentary which combines behind-the-scenes footage of cast and crew (including especially rewarding interviews with the Thierrys) with reportage on the state of France’s foster care system. Pialat’s...
A magnificently unsentimental entry in French cinema’s prodigious catalog of chronicles of wayward youngsters, Maurice Pialat’s piercing first feature introduces the Gallic master’s mix of laceration and delicacy.
Unaffected, though completely unguarded in front of the camera, the real-life foster parents, Marie-Louise Thierry and René Thierry, are a gift to the director. The film was not successful at the French box office when it was released in 1968.
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