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"François, un gamin de l'assistance publique, est placé successivement dans des familles adoptives. Puis il arrive chez un vieux couple qui lui apporte compréhension et réconfort mais ne l'empêche pas de continuer ses incartades."
"Francois is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught."
"The story of a ten-year old boy who acts out in cruel ways, such as torturing a cat. He is sent to live with an older couple who also take care of a fifteen-year old boy."
"François Fournier is a troubled ten-year-old who has been in foster care since he was four. But his is a "temporary placement," meaning that his parents can come back for him any time. They never do. The story begins with François being shuffled from one foster home to another, as his insecurity leads him to engage in increasingly destructive behavior. He is placed with an older couple named Thierry, the newest addition to a ménage that includes Mrs. Thierry's mother, a very young girl, and a high-school age boy. They aren't afraid to share their lives with this new houseguest, and the impressionable boy seems to be settling down. For François, things just are what they are--and he's usually "temporary." A fascinating portrait of childhood, which is also an indictment of a failing social system."
"The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child. We watch as ten-year-old François (Michel Terrazon) is shuttled from one home to another, his behavior growing increasingly erratic, his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught. In this, his feature debut, Pialat treats that potentially sentimental scenario with astonishing sobriety and stark realism. With its full-throttle mixture of emotionality and clear-eyed skepticism, L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood) was advance notice of one of the most masterful careers in French cinema, and remains one of Pialat's finest works."
""Après plusieurs tentatives auprès de familles d'accueil, un gamin de l'assistance publique trouve compréhension et réconfort auprès d'un vieux couple. Malheureusement, il provoque un accident de la circulation et est envoyé dans un centre de redressement."
"First-time actor Michel Tarrazon plays the young François, a provincial orphan whose destructive behaviour precipitates his relocation from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. In the course of this transition, Pialat's film presents the turbulence of François's unmoored existence, and his explosive reactions to the contradictory emotions it engenders. This is the naked portrait of a soul's, and an entire society's dysfunction, before the moment of reconciliation."
"The singular French director Maurice Pialat puts his distinctive stamp on the lost-youth film with this devastating portrait of a damaged foster child. We watch as ten-year-old François (Michel Terrazon) is shuttled from one home to another, his behavior growing increasingly erratic, his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught. In this, his feature debut, Pialat treats that potentially sentimental scenario with astonishing sobriety and stark realism. With its full-throttle mixture of emotionality and clear-eyed skepticism, L'enfance nue (Naked childhood) was advance notice of one of the most masterful careers in French cinema, and remains one of Pialat's finest works."