Loulou
Maurice Pialat
After three years of marriage to André, an advertising man who provides her with a comfortable life, Nellie is bored. At a dance, she meets Loulou, a young outsider, and begins to accompany her on her nighttime adventures. André is quickly exasperated by the situation, but remains with Nellie who, for her part, begins to support Loulou.
With : Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand, Humbert Balsam, Bernard Tronczyk, Xavier Saint-Marcary, Christian Boucher, Frédérique Cerbonnet, Jacqueline Dufranne, Willy Safar
Screenplay : Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
Image : Pierre-William Glenn, Jacques Loiseleux
Sound : Dominique Dalmasso
Music : Philippe Sarde, Tafany's Band, Richard Anthony, Novelty Disco Band
Editing : Yann Dedet, Sophie Coussein
Screenplay : Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
Image : Pierre-William Glenn, Jacques Loiseleux
Sound : Dominique Dalmasso
Music : Philippe Sarde, Tafany's Band, Richard Anthony, Novelty Disco Band
Editing : Yann Dedet, Sophie Coussein
Production : Action Films, Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
"The subject of Loulou isn't only a story of the passion, as unexplainable as it is irresistible, a bourgeois woman has for a young delinquent. It's the transformation of a classical family order into an informal community." (J. Magny) Loulou is Maurice Pialat's first collaboration with Gérard Depardieu. "I learned that Gérard Depardieu was free for a very brief period of time. I was tired of waiting; I hadn't filmed anything since 1973, apart from Graduate First, so I took advantage of the situation." (M. Pialat) "The shooting of Loulou was difficult. The environment of insecurity in which Pialat put us, the fact that nothing was ever right, the days that never ended, his own anxiousness, are in fact evidence of a great malice. It's thanks to that, or because of that, that Loulou has this muggy, troubled, physical, fantasy-like ambiance." (I. Huppert)