To Our Loves

An intimate, raw portrait of adolescence told through the lens of sexual initiation. To Our Loves follows 15-year-old Suzanne, who seeks closeness in casual erotic contacts. A family crisis becomes a turning point—her father decides to leave his wife and children. Maurice Pialat avoids sentimentality, instead painting a brutally honest picture of youthful loneliness and family dysfunction. The camera closely follows Suzanne, capturing her confusion and desperate attempts to escape into casual romances. In one of her earliest roles, Sandrine Bonnaire delivers a César Award-winning performance, instinctive and raw in its authenticity. Almost documentary-like in form, the film is both deeply personal and universally resonant—a vivid dissection of the emotional turbulence of coming of age.

Mikołaj Mizak

Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) – after studying fine arts, this famous French director first worked as a painter. Having had no success, however, he decided to try his hand at filmmaking. He made his first short films at the end of the 1950s, while his feature-film debut was the realistic Naked Childhood, for which he was awarded the Prix Jean Vigo. His true masterpieces came in the 1980s and include Under the Sun of Satan, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and the biopic Van Gogh.

Catalog MFF Nowe Horyzonty 14. edition