directed by Maurice Pialat
France 1980
All play and no work means never a dull
moment for bored bourgeois Nelly and ex-con Loulou. Isabelle Huppert and
Gérard Depardieu star in director Maurice Pialat's drama about love, sex
and class.
Bourgeois Nelly (Huppert) seeks refuge from her violently jealous
partner and boss André (Marchand) in the arms of unemployed ex-con
Loulou (Depardieu). A one-night-stand quickly turns into something more
serious, and Nelly moves in with her new lover.
Sex with Loulou is great, life is never boring in his extended
demi-monde of drinkers, idlers and petty criminals, and at first Nelly
does not mind being the one who pays all the bills while her work-shy
partner stays at home. But when she falls pregnant, all the tensions in
their relationship rise to the surface, as it becomes unclear whether
Loulou will ever be more than Nelly's bit of rough, or indeed whether
she wants him to be more.
With its love-triangle story arc, its heavy consumption of food, wine
and Gitanes, its frankness about sex, and the presence of Gallic
big-hitters Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Pialat's
Loulou may be the quintessential French film, but it is nonetheless
concerned with that most British of obsessions, class.
Excerpt from Channel 4 located HERE
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Theatrical Release: France 3 September 1980, Canada 8 September 1980 (Toronto Film Festival)
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