LOULOU
Hosted by critic Elena Lazic
ARCHIVED DISCUSSION
SATURDAY | JULY 27 | 12PM PT
The quick-tempered André (Guy Marchand) arrives at a discothèque to find his wife, Nelly (Isabelle Huppert), dancing with the dashing, leather-jacket-clad petty thief Loulou (Gérard Depardieu). In an ensuing argument, she snaps at her husband, “I’m fed up to the eyeballs!” After André storms out, Nelly goes home with Loulou, quickly becoming infatuated with his anti-bourgeois, bad-boy lifestyle that teases a life palpably different from her own, igniting a class-division love triangle that’s at times both brutal and humorous.
Weaving a cleverly understated social commentary into a vignette-style narrative, Maurice Pialat’s Loulou is an engaging impression of romance in its messiness and naïveté, capturing Parisian life less with glamour than with gritty authenticity.
Following a live screening, critic and Pialat fan Elena Lazic will join us for a chat to share her enduring impressions and expand on the French master’s defining body of work.
