Loulou (1980)
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100% of critics liked it
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62% of users liked it
(703 ratings)
Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When… More Maurice Pialat's character study eschews traditional plot development in its examination of the power of sex and passion to overturn class restrictions and social conventions. Isabelle Huppert is Nelly, a middle-class Parisian housewife, married to possessive husband Andre (Guy Marchand). When she meets street thug Loulou (Gerard Depardieu), her middle-class respectability is thrown out the window and she leaves Andre for Loulou. Loulou, who has no job and resorts to robbery to survive, is more than willing to live off Nelly's money. But Andre won't give her up and, in the mind-set of a middle-class bourgeois, tries to convince her to return. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Maurice Pialat
- Written By
- Arlette Langmann & Maurice Pialat, Maurice Pialat, Arlette Langmann
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 8, 1980 Limited
- Studio
- New Yorker Films
Critic Reviews
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Anton Bitel, Film4
Huppert describes how Pialat would disappear from the set for days on end, leading the producers to go on frantic searches for him in all the nearby bars.
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Anton Bitel, Film4
This examination of class, love and sexual politics is full of nuanced observations of character, even as its narrative staggers and reels like a drunk negotiating a dark road.
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Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Attractive leads and an unusual story approach outweigh the flm's defects.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Loulou is a dance macabre of three individuals trying to decide whether or not they want to change their lives.
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Cast
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Isabelle Huppert
as Nelly
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Gérard Depardieu
as Loulou
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Guy Marchand
as André, André, Andr?
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Humbert Balsan
as Michel
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Bernard Tronczyk
as Rémy, Rémy, R?my
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Frederique Cerbonnet
as Dominique
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Patricia Coulet
as Marité, Marité, Marit
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Jacqueline Dufranne
as Mémère, Mémère, Mmre
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Agnes Rosier
as Cathy
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Willy Safar
as Jean-Louis
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Xavier Saint-Macary
as Bernard
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Patrick Poivey
as Philippe
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Gerald Garnier
as Lulu
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Christian Boucher
as Pierrot
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Jean-Claude Meilland
as le gars du casse
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Patrick Playez
as Thomas
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Catherine de Guirchitch
as Marie-Jo
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Jean Van Herzeele
as René, René, Ren
- Bernard Tronczak
