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                           L'Enfance Nue (1968)
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STARS...........: Michel Terrazon, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey
DIRECTOR........: Maurice Pialat
WRITERS.........: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
GENRE...........: Drama
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065695
RUNTIME.........: 1h 23mn
SIZE............: 4.18 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1796x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1
FRAMERATE.......: 24 fps
AUDIO...........: French AAC 1.0 200kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, FRE
SOURCE..........: Gaumont Blu-ray, Criterion/Eureka DVDs
ENCODE DATE.....: 2021-07-29


The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child. We watch as ten-year-old François (Michel Terrazon) is shuttled from one home to another, his behavior growing increasingly erratic, his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught. In this, his feature debut, Pialat treats that potentially sentimental scenario with astonishing sobriety and stark realism. With its full-throttle mixture of emotionality and clear-eyed skepticism, L’enfance nue (Naked Childhood) was advance notice of one of the most masterful careers in French cinema, and remains one of Pialat’s finest works.


Extras

• Extras:"L'amour existe" short film by Pialat (1960) (Criterion)
• "Choses vues, autour de L'enfance nue" documentary (Criterion)
• Visual essay by critic Kent Jones (Criterion)
• Interview with Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret (2003) (Criterion)
• Text Essay by Phillip Lopate (Criterion)
• Interview with Maurice Pialat, from the programme Champ contre-champ (1973) (Eureka)
• On the Trail of Michel Tarrazon (2005) (Eureka)
• Original French Trailer (Eureka)