L'adolescente

press release: France | 1979 | 35mm | 90 min. | French with English subtitles

Director: Jeanne Moreau; Cast: Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Laetitia Chauveau

In the second of two features directed and co-written by acclaimed actress Moreau, a Paris butcher on holiday brings his family to stay with his widowed mother (Signoret) in a small country village. Set in the days before the beginning of World War II, the story focuses on the coming-of-age of Marie (Chauveau), the title character. “Among Miss Moreau's considerable strengths as a director is her ability to populate this simple, even familiar, story with characterizations that are uncommonly solid” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).

From the Archives at UNCSA

Founded in the 1990s, the Moving Image Archives at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem provided a home for thousands of 35mm film prints once kept at dozens of National Film Service depots across the country. Slated for destruction, the prints were rescued and trucked to a state-of-the-art archival facility, providing a foundation for what is now one of the largest 35mm collections in the world. Consisting primarily of titles released in the 1950s to the early 1990s, the holdings include widely distributed Hollywood classics, subtitled releases of foreign-language titles, grindhouse staples, cult movies, and some truly rare oddities. The series of all 35mm prints will include nine feature-length rarities from three continents and a personal appearance from the UNCSA’s senior curator, David Spencer, who will discuss the history of the collection and its holdings.

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.