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My Little Loves
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Wikipedia article
'My Little Loves' ( from a poem by Arthur Rimbaud) is a French drama film written and directed by Jean Eustache, his second and last feature. It was released in 1974 and stars Martin Loeb as an adolescent boy shunted from a tranquil lifestyle at his grandmother's rural abode to his mother's cramped apartment in the city. Ingrid Caven plays the boy's mother. The film was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival.
Plot
This film is a study of a boy growing up in France. Daniel lives with his grandmother in Pessac outside the city of Bordeaux, sharing a nave and happy childhood with his friends. After one year of secondary school, Daniel has to go to the city of Narbonne to live with his mother. She is a seamstress living in a small apartment with her lover Jos, a married Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school. However, his mother cannot afford it and sends him instead to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel learns about girls from observing others in the cinema, on the street, and advice from other boys in town. When he visits his grandmother next year, he returns as a much more mature boy than his old friends.
Cast
* Martin Loeb as Daniel
* Jacqueline Dufranne as La grand-mre
* Jacques Romain
* Ingrid Caven as La mre
* Marie-Paule Fernandez as Franoise
* Vincent Testanire
* Roger Rizzi
* Anne Stroka
* Cirque Muller
* Syndra Kahn
* Jean-Jacques Bihan
Production
Luc Braud is assistant director on the movie.
Reception
'My Little Loves' has an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is one of Michel Gondry's favorite films.
References
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