À nos amours

Selected as part of the series Champ libre by Lina Rodríguez, director of Mis dos voces, currently playing.

In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself), ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence, À nos amours is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema. (Criterion)

Best film – Cérémonie des Césars, 1984

Most promising actress : Sandrine Bonnaire – Cérémonie des Césars, 1984