L'Enfance nue
Maurice Pialat
Nine year-old François was abandoned and placed with a foster family in the North of France. The adoptive parents, overwhelmed by the child's turbulent behaviour, request to have François placed in a new home. The Thierrys, an aged couple, take him in. With them, He discovers a new family, including Raoul, another foster child, and the bedridden grandmother, for whom François feels affection.
With : Michel Tarrazon, Marie-Louise Thierry, René Thierry, Marie Marc, Henri Puff, Linda Gutemberg, Raoul Billerey, Maurice Cousseneau, Claire Thierry, Yolande Coleau
Screenplay : Maurice Pialat, adapté par Maurice Pialat et Arlette Langmann
Image : Claude Beausoleil
Sound : Henri Moline
Editing : Arlette Langmann
Screenplay : Maurice Pialat, adapté par Maurice Pialat et Arlette Langmann
Image : Claude Beausoleil
Sound : Henri Moline
Editing : Arlette Langmann
Production : Parc Film, Films du Carosse, Renn Productions, Parafrance Films
Maurice Pialat undertook his first feature-length film rather belatedly, at 43 years of age, with the financial and moral support of François Truffaut. Filmed in only fifteen days, the film deals with a delicate social theme, and is based on research previously performed by the director. When casting the film, Maurice Pialat chose to call on non-professional actors, such as for the Thierry couple, a couple who actually adopts abandoned children, and also chose to film in natural settings. "I like the photo of Naked Childhood for its ugliness and harshness. For this film, I refused to aesthetically review each scene. I left the walls as they were – yellow – because they offend the eye." (M. Pialat)