Under the Sun of Satan Graduate First

Under the Sun of Satan won the best film prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Graduate First offers a group portrait of young adults in northern France.

Second feature start time: 9 pm. Gerard Depardieu costars with Bonnaire in Under the Sun of Satan, an adaptation of a George Bernanos novel about a tortured Normandy priest and a young girl desperate for spiritual redemption. The film won the Palme d'Or (prize for best film) at the Cannes Film Festival. (1987; 103 mins.)

Graduate First is the typical rejoinder French parents make to their teenage children straining for more freedom. Here Pialat brings insight and warmth to a group portrait of northern French kids stranded between high school graduation and the unemployment line. (1979; 85 mins.)

The Maurice Pialat retrospective was organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of French Cultural Services (New York) and the Bureau du Cinema, Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Paris.

at the bookshop

Back issues of the May/June 2004 issue of Film Comment, featuring an extensive midsection on Pialat, are available in the Wexner Center Bookshop.


support credits

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.