Naked Childhood ( L'enfance nue ) ( Me ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Naked Childhood ( L'enfance nue ) ( Me ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Naked Childhood ( L'enfance nue ) ( Me ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: One of the earth-shaking feature debuts in the history of cinema, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance-nue (Naked-Childhood) provides a perspective on growing-up that rejects both sentimentality and modish cynicism. Its unflinching, but also warmly accommodating, outlook on childhood attracted François Truffaut to take on the role as co-producer of Pialat's film - which, ironically, exists as much as a response to Truffaut's own debut The 400 Blows as that film was to the 'cinema of childhood' that came before the New Wave. First-time actor Michel Tarrazon plays the young François, a provincial orphan whose destructive behaviour precipitates his relocation from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. In the course of this transition, Pialat's film presents the turbulence of François's unmoored existence, and his explosive reactions to the contradictory emotions it engenders. This is the naked portrait of a soul's - and an entire society's - dysfunction, before the moment of reconciliation.