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| | village voice > screens > À Nos Amours by Michael Atkinson |
 | | Offscreen space and time are so voluminous that what we see feels like chance encounters, life glimpsed through a passing train's windows. |
 | | The central movie in his scant canon, and a generational touchstone in France, À Nos Amours (1983) may be its nation's premier examination of familial breakdown (based upon the remembrances of screenwriter Arlette Langmann, sister to Claude Berri), and the greatest film ever made about the damage of awakening sexual power. |
 | | The Criterion prizes, on a separate disc, include an insightful critical doc about the film, audition footage, and interviews with Pialat, Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Catherine Breillat. |
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