Co-written with Arlette Langmann and drawn in part from her own adolescence, À nos amours (To Our Loves) centers on Suzanne (the astonishing Sandrine Bonnaire, in her revelatory debut), a 16-year-old living in a cramped Paris apartment with her furrier parents and older brother. After losing her virginity at summer camp, Suzanne returns home and throws herself into a series of increasingly reckless relationships that test her independence as much as they betray her need to be loved. Pialat casts himself as her volatile father, whose fierce affection and sudden absences destabilize the family and intensify Suzanne’s defiance, culminating in a now-legendary dinner sequence that ranks among the most bracing confrontations in French cinema. Raw, unguarded, and exacting, yet never without compassion, À nos amours refuses easy moralizing and leaves us face to face with love stripped of its illusions. An NYFF22 selection. A Janus Films release.