The Innocents

Les innocents

France

1987

96 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, Arabic

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Philippe Carcassonne, Alain Terzian

SCR André Téchiné, Pascal Bonitzer

CAST Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Simon de La Brosse, Abdellatif Kechiche, Tanya Lopert, Jacques Nolot, Christina Paolini, Marthe Villalonga, Stéphane Onfroy, Pierre Grisoli

MUSIC Philippe Sarde

Synopsis

A girl (Sandrine Bonnaire) leaves home to find her runaway brother (Simon de la Brosse), and finds several people who change her life in this drama from director André Téchiné.

Director

A critic with the Cahiers du Cinéma in the 60s, he made his directing debut with Paulina s’en va, his first feature, shown at the Fortnight in 1969. He returned to the Fortnight in 1975 with Souvenirs d’en France. Reputed for his work with actors, he has directed the likes of Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Daniel Auteuil… He won several awards at Venice and Cannes and received three Césars in 1995 for Les roseaux sauvages. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs