Chapter 22 "The Sorrow Is Always There": For Our Love, 1983

"The Sorrow Is Always There": For Our Love, 1983 This is "Son of Lumiere" and "Father of New French Cinema" Maurice Pialat, the sixth of ten feature films in his life, and it is also his classic work recognized in Cannes.In this film, he contributed "one of the most wonderful gifts" to the French film industry, the 16-year-old Sandrine Bonnaire, her performance is like an elf, bright, wild, with inexplicable sad.She plays Suzanne living in a family full of quarrels, fights, selfishness and neuroticism.Piala himself played the father who ran away from home because of boredom. Another role he played in the film he directed was Father Donisan who hovered between God and Satan in "Under the Satan's Sun". For our love (anosamours) he quoted Van Gogh's last words "sorrow is always there".At the end, he said to Sandrina and her generation of young people, "You are sorrow".For this sad love, Sandrina kept changing her sexual partners and conflicts with her family.In the quarrels and fights again and again, Piara exposed his observations of French families and the current situation, and also practiced his declaration that "movies are the true feelings of the moment they are shot".But in a doomed family disaster film, Pialat's aesthetic remains Renoir-esque.As long as you have watched this film for a while, you should not forget that in the opening of the opera, Sandrine Bonnaire stood on the bow of the boat in a short white skirt facing the wind. It only takes a few tens of seconds of her back and then a turn, she will Already in your heart, this is the beauty of Pialat's films, and the force that later destroys this middle-class family.