L’Enfance Nue

“We're going to start with L'enfance nue by the director and writer Maurice Pialat, one of my favorite writer-directors. This is from 1968, it's about a foster child being shuttled around France and moving from family to family. It's like one of the most unsentimental movies about childhood I've ever seen. I felt like it was the first movie I'd seen with a child lead who you didn't necessarily sympathize with for most of the movie, and then once you understand him it's totally devastating.”