À Nos Amours movie synopsis. Suzanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) is sixteen years old Parisian girl who is enjoying life, sneaking out to fool around with her boyfriend, flirting with sailors until two key events alter her life and drive her into a unfulfilling cycle of pleasure seeking–she sleeps with an American which drives off her boyfriend and her father leaves the family for another woman. After this she bounces from boy to boy and relationships with her mother and brother escalate to violence. She continues to seek happiness in life without knowing how to love.
À Nos Amours (French pronunciation: [a noz‿amuʁ], To Our Loves) is a 1983 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and written by Pialat and Arlette Langmann. Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Pialat and Evelyne Ker, the story follows a 15-year-old girl, Suzanne (Bonnaire), as she experiences her sexual awakening and becomes promiscuous, but is unable to feel love. À Nos Amours won the César Award for Best Film in 1984.
The genesis of the film was Arlette Langmann’s screenplay Les filles du faubourg, which Pialat said was written in the 1970s and set in the 1960s, and would have made a three- to four-hour film. After pitching the screenplay to the National Center of Cinematography and Gaumont Film Company around 1975, Pialat began seeking funds to shoot it when his project Les Meurtrières began to flounder.
In Les Filles du faubourg, the characters are Polish Jews, but Pialat minimized the family’s heritage to brief references. Due to the small budget, Pialat aborted the period drama element, moving the setting from the 1960s to the present but keeping some of the art design and avoiding mentions of politics or contraception.
À Nos Amours (1983)
Directed by: Maurice Pialat
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Evelyne Ker, Dominique Besnehard, Anne-Sophie Maillé, Cyril Collard, Christophe Odent, Jacques Fieschi, Valérie Schlumberger, Tsilka Theodorou
Screenplay by: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
Production Design by: Jean-Paul Camail, Arlette Langmann
Cinematography by: Jacques Loiseleux
Film Editing by: Valérie Condroyer, Sophie Coussein, Yann Dedet
Costume Design by: Martha De Villalonga , Valérie Schlumberger
Music by: Klaus Nomi
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Artificial Eye, Triumph Films
Release Date: November 16, 1983
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