L'enfance-nue
By: Janus Films ; Athos Distribution ; François Truffaut, Claude Berri, Jo et Samy Siritzky, Mag Bodard présentent ; une production Stephan Films ; un film de Maurice Pialat ; [produit par Vera Belmont, Guy Benier, Claude Berri, Mag Bodard, Fracois Truffaut ; écrit par Maurice Pialat, Arlette Langmann ; dirigé par Maurice Pialat]
Contributors: Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990, film producer; Tarrazon, Michel, actor; Thierry, Marie-Louise, actor; Thierry, René, actor; Marc, Marie, actor; Puff, Henri, actor; Gutemberg, Linda, actor; Billery, Raoul, actor; Deplanque, Pierrette, actor; Reynold, Jean-Loup, 1935- narrator; Beausoleil, Claude, 1929-1983, director of photography; Films de la Pléiade (Firm); Janus Films; Athos Distribution (Firm); Stephan Films; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series: The criterion collection -- 534; Criterion collection -- 534.
Published: 2010
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781604653120
Subjects: Drama; Foster children; Psychology; Problem children; Foster parents; Foster home care; Preteens
Other titles: Naked childhood; Autour de "L'enfance nue."; L'amour existe; Fly in the ointment
Work titles: Enfance nue (Motion picture)
Description: François Fournier is a troubled ten-year-old who has been in foster care since he was four. But his is a "temporary placement," meaning that his parents can come back for him any time. They never do. The story begins with François being shuffled from one foster home to another, as his insecurity leads him to engage in increasingly destructive behavior. He is placed with an older couple named Thierry, the newest addition to a ménage that includes Mrs. Thierry's mother, a very young girl, and a high-school age boy. They aren't afraid to share their lives with this new houseguest, and the impressionable boy seems to be settling down. For François, things just are what they are--and he's usually "temporary." A fascinating portrait of childhood, which is also an indictment of a failing social system.
Notes: Credits for all items not listed in the 245 field are from the accompanying booklet.

Cinematography, Claude Beausoleil.

Michel Terrazon, Marie-Louise Thierry, René Thierry, Marie Marc, Henri Puff, Linda Gutemberg, Raoul Billerey, Pierrette Deplanqe.

Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1968.

DVD.

In French with optional subtitles in English.
Table of contents: title: Family outing; title: François at home; title: Visit from the director; title: Last night; title: Leaving; title: Children; title: Home for Vincent; title: Mr. and Mrs. Thierry; title: First night; title: New at school; title: Not normal; title: Grandma and Grandpa; title: Close call; title: At the movies; title: Family gathering; title: Morning papers; title: Down the drain; title: Nana's purse; title: Wedding; title: Death; title: Sick; title: Crime and punishment; title: Uncertain future; title: Color bars.; title: Special features: Autour de "L'enfance Nue" [featurette, b & w] (52 min.);; title: L'amour existe -- Pierre Braunberger presente ; un film de Maurice Pialat ; voix [voice], Jean Loup Reynold ; production Films de la Pléiade-- (1960) (20 min.); Kent Jones [featurette] (2010) (11 min.); Maurice Pialat [featurette] (16 min.); Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret [featurette] (2003) (6 min.); Booklet includes the essay "The Fly in the Ointment" by Phillip Lopate.