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Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974)

Drama | 123 minutes
3,43 28 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 123 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Jean Eustache

Stars: Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne and Ingrid Caven

IMDb score: 7,1 (1.753)

Releasedate: 18 December 1974

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Mes Petites Amoureuses plot

The son of an unmarried mother, raised by his grandmother, is taken in by his mother when she moves in with a Spanish guest worker. However, his mother cannot afford his studies. He therefore takes a job at a bicycle repair shop to contribute to the costs. He learns everything about girls from the other boys in the village. When he visits his grandmother a year later, he appears to have grown up faster than his old friends.

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yeyo

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Few directors have made as personal, autobiographical films as Jean Eustache. It is generally known that La Maman et la Putain was a true film adaptation of his many love affairs. So truthful that the lady on whom the character 'la maman' was based - I've heard it said - spontaneously killed herself after the first screening. Less well known is the fact that Eustache's childhood in the village of Pessac may have had an even greater impact on him as a filmmaker than the 1960s Parisian bohemian life with which he is often associated. Eustache made two documentaries about Pessac (not yet on this site, who oh who will add them?) and this film. Mes Petites Amoureuses is charming, but lacks the exceptional atmosphere of La Maman et La Putain. Brilliant ending though: the main character of about 13 years old moves to a big city, where he is very influenced by a number of hormonally unbalanced rascals, with all the consequences that entails: after all, when he returns to his old village during the summer holidays .. it turns out he has completely outgrown his former boyfriends. Many filmmakers would bring such a transition with subtlety and nuance, Eustache does it this way: the main character casually tries to grab a girlfriend's tits, she turns out not to be willing, so he continues playing. Oh well, we already knew from Une Sale Histoire that Jean was a silent enjoyer

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wendyvortex

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Beautiful recreation of France in the early sixties, the strolling, the pinball cafes, the cinema and especially the extremely complicated rules in the boy-girl traffic.

Halfway through, the main character moves from countryside to city, the pace is sliding and it always seems to be summer.

Both nostalgic and somewhat brooding, which gives it a slightly different atmosphere than in most coming-of-age films.

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Movsin

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La Douce France from about the year 70 reinvented and then through the eyes of an adolescent with a lot of attention for couples in love, girls who are eligible for a first kiss and who also have something to do with love.

Tender and also discreet film, built up with short scenes that are hardly connected, but usually have to do with the theme.

Recognizable situations and backgrounds for those who knew that period and a protagonist who occasionally reminded me of Jean-Pierre Léaud (not coincidentally an interpreter in that other well-known film by Eustache).

Sympathetic, to watch quietly, possibly to dwell in memories for a while, but also to appreciate for the neat design, successful camera work, simple and spontaneous dialogues and very decent acting.

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