''My Little Loves'' (french: Mes Petites Amoureuses from a poem by Arthur Rimbaud) is a French

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written and directed by

Jean Eustache Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is c ...

, 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.

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plays the boy's mother. The film was entered into the

9th Moscow International Film Festival The 9th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1975. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Polish film '' The Promised Land'' directed by Andrzej Wajda, the Soviet-Japanese film ''Dersu Uzala'' directed by Akira Kurosawa a ...

Plot

This film is a study of a boy growing up in France. Daniel lives with his grandmother in Pessac outside the city of

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, sharing a naïve 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 José, 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-mère * Jacques Romain *

as La mère * Marie-Paule Fernandez as Françoise * Vincent Testanière *

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* Anne Stroka *

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Production

Luc Béraud Luc Béraud (born 30 October 1945) is a French director, screenwriter and actor. Career He started as assistant director for Patrice Leconte, Jean Eustache and Alain Robbe-Grillet. He was nominated three times at the César Award for Best Writ ...

is assistant director on the movie.

Reception

''My Little Loves'' has an 80% approval rating on

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. It is one of

Michel Gondry Michel Gondry (; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. Along with Charlie Kaufman, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers ...

's favorite films.

References

External links

* 1974 films 1974 drama films French drama films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Jean Eustache 1970s French films {{1970s-France-film-stub