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LWLies Presents

Lit­tle White Lies and MUBI present… Mau­rice Pialat’s A Nos Amours

01 Sep 2017

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Two people embrace in a wooded setting, a man in a denim jacket and a woman in a striped jumper.
Two people embrace in a wooded setting, a man in a denim jacket and a woman in a striped jumper.
Join us for this spe­cial screen­ing of the teen movie to end all teen movies.

Mau­rice Pialat’s 1983 film A Nos Amours is one of the great­est teen movies ever made. It revolves around the impul­sive, sex­u­al­ly rapa­cious coquette Suzanne, played by San­drine Bon­naire, and charts the peri­od of life between los­ing her vir­gin­i­ty, and then fly­ing the fam­i­ly nest.

This screen­ing is being held in con­junc­tion with a ret­ro­spec­tive of Pialat’s work, ​‘I Don’t Like You Either’, on MUBI, and this is a unique chance to revis­it some of the extra­or­di­nary films made by this sin­gu­lar, and some­times unher­ald­ed director.

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This revered tenet of mod­ern French cin­e­ma has been cit­ed as a key influ­ence on Luca Guadagnino’s forth­com­ing fea­ture Call Me by Your Name, and is a rare treat on the big screen.

See A Nos Amours at 13:45 on Sun­day 17 Sep­tem­ber at London’s Rio Cin­e­ma, fol­lowed by a pan­el dis­cus­sion led by LWLies edi­tor David Jenk­ins and fea­tur­ing a host of spe­cial guests. Book tick­ets at riocin​e​ma​.org​.uk

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