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French film about disillusionment, which runs throughout the entire narrative like a return to reality after the May '68 uprisings. The film explores personal and professional relationships within a context of urban and social crisis, but its emotional core and human drama often highlight love stories and personal connections against this socio-cultural backdrop. This gives the work a more intimate dimension, focusing on the interactions between characters and their inner struggles.
Des enfants gâtés (Spoiled Children) is also, above all, a passionate love story between a film director, Antoine (Piccoli, a clear alter ego of Tavernier himself), and a young woman, Anne (Christine Pascal), who leads a tenants' committee. The intense love affair between Antoine and Anne is immediate, irreversible, and asymmetrical. In this Tavernier-Pascal narrative, shaped by social codes, the man risks almost nothing (aside from the temporary sadness of the inevitable breakup): he keeps the family home, maintains his masculine imprint without disruption, and preserves his professional prestige and composure. Sarde’s soundtrack is spot-on, and clearly, the film winks at Claude Sautet—not only through Piccoli’s presence but also through the entire background of a 1970s French cinema that will never return.
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Des enfants gâtés (Spoiled Children) is also, above all, a passionate love story between a film director, Antoine (Piccoli, a clear alter ego of Tavernier himself), and a young woman, Anne (Christine Pascal), who leads a tenants' committee. The intense love affair between Antoine and Anne is immediate, irreversible, and asymmetrical. In this Tavernier-Pascal narrative, shaped by social codes, the man risks almost nothing (aside from the temporary sadness of the inevitable breakup): he keeps the family home, maintains his masculine imprint without disruption, and preserves his professional prestige and composure. Sarde’s soundtrack is spot-on, and clearly, the film winks at Claude Sautet—not only through Piccoli’s presence but also through the entire background of a 1970s French cinema that will never return.
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