Auf das, was wir lieben (1983)

Auf das, was wir lieben: Directed by Maurice Pialat. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent, Dominique Besnehard. An erratic young woman’s family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.

“Others have already said that u0026quot;À nos amoursu0026quot; is a great film, even more have said that Sandrine Bonnaire was a knockout in her demanding rôle as Suzanne. There is a sort of timeline, a beginning and an end, but this is really a film about a personal journey through a part of Suzanneu0026#39;s late adolescence. Young people who have watched the film recently are sometimes very annoyed with Suzanne, but this only proves that Miss Bonnaire has made them care about her character even to the point that they perhaps want to shake her, to take her into a corner and tell her what mistakes she is making. There is also a conflict which some pretend had disappeared by the end of the u0026quot;swinging sixtiesu0026quot; – the generation gap between the sexual mores of parents and adolescents, which was of course still real in the early eighties and remains so in many cultures. Unpredictable behaviour (by Suzanneu0026#39;s brother, for example) is also a real part of family life for many young people. Every time I watch the film (and I have seen it very often, as I used it in my French classes more than once) I notice details which had escaped me or which I had forgotten. Pialat made other great films, but u0026quot;À nos amoursu0026quot; remains my favourite. If possible watch it in French, with subtitles if necessary – but see it before you die!”