Naked Childhood - Portal do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal

Casa das Artes | Small auditorium – 15h30

Admission: 2 euros | Quadrilateral card: 1 euro | Free entry: students, seniors, film club members | Original title: L' Enfance Nue (France, 1968) | Directed by: Maurice Pialat | Cast: Michel Terrazon, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey, Pierrette Deplanque | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 80 min | With an introduction by Ricardo Gross, film critic

His mother - who is unwilling to give up permanent custody, has handed over François, a ten-year-old boy, to an orphanage. His destructive behaviour precipitates his move from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. A moving film about childhood, Maurice Pialat's first feature, is a semi-documentary style work that uses only amateur actors. A sort of reverse of "The Four Hundred Blows" (Pialat is said to have taken Truffaut's film as an anti-model), it is the painful story of a turbulent pre-adolescent in a foster family and his emotional maladjustments.