My Little Loves movie storyline. A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school, but his mother cannot afford it, so she sends him to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel wiles away his time in the shop, and learns about girls from the other boys in town. When he returns to visit his grandmother next year, it is obvious that he has grown up faster than his old friends.
My Little Loves (French: Mes Petites Amoureuses from a poem by Arthur Rimbaud) is a French drama film written and directed by Jean Eustache, his second and last feature. It was released in 1974 and stars Martin Loeb as an adolescent boy shunted from a tranquil lifestyle at his grandmother’s rural abode to his mother’s cramped apartment in the city. Ingrid Caven plays the boy’s mother. The film was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival.
My Little Loves (1974)
Directed by: Jean Eustache
Starring: Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Jacques Romain, Ingrid Caven, Marie-Paule Fernandez, Vincent Testanière, Roger Rizzi, Anne Stroka, Cirque Muller, Syndra Kahn, Jean-Jacques Bihan
Screenplay by: Jean Eustache
Cinematography by: Néstor Almendros
Film Editing by: Françoise Belleville, Vincent Cottrell, Alberto Yaccelini
Costume Design by: Renée Renard
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: AMLF (France), New Yorker Films (USA)
Release Date: December 18, 1974
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