Le Garçu
1995 French film
- 31 October 1995 (1995-10-31)
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Le Garçu (English: "The Boy") is a 1995 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu.[2] It was Pialat's final work. He was dissatisfied with the film and even planned to re-edit it, but his failing health made that impossible.[3]
Plot
Gérard, mentally still adolescent, adores Antoine, his four-year-old son with Sophie, his second and much younger wife. On a holiday to Mauritius, she finally can no longer stand his immature behaviour and returns with the child to Paris. Gérard is given a room by his ex-wife and finds himself company for the nights. Taking Sophie and Antoine for a holiday to Sables d'Olonne, they meet up with Jeannot and his partner. The woman pounces on Gérard for a night's fling, but Jeannot is seriously drawn to Sophie and, moving in with her, helps looks after little Antoine. When a hospital in Auvergne rings to say that Gérard's father (“le garçu” in the local dialect) is on his deathbed, Sophie unhesitatingly goes there with him. Her support brings the two closer again, but Gérard is never going to grow up and Jeannot has become a father to the child.
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu – Gérard
- Géraldine Pailhas – Sophie
- Antoine Pialat – Antoine
- Dominique Rocheteau – Jeannot
- Fabienne Babe – Cathy
- Élisabeth Depardieu – Micheline
- Claude Davy – Le Garçu
- Isabelle Costacurta – Isabelle
References
- ^ "Le Garçu (1995)". UniFrance. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (2011). "New York Times: Le Garçu". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- ^ Warehime, Marja: Maurice Pialat (French Film Directors), Manchester University Press, 2006, p155, ISBN 0719068223
External links
- Le Garçu at IMDb
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Films directed by Maurice Pialat
- L'amour existe (1960)
- Naked Childhood (1968)
- We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
- The Mouth Agape (1974)
- Graduate First (1978)
- Loulou (1980)
- À Nos Amours (1983)
- Police (1985)
- Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
- Van Gogh (1991)
- Le Garçu (1995)
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