| Le Garçu | |
| Director: | Maurice Pialat |
| Producer: | Philippe Godeau |
| Starring: | Gérard Depardieu |
| Cinematography: | Jean-Claude Larrieu Myriam Touzé |
| Editing: | Hervé de Luze |
| Distributor: | PolyGram Film Distribution[1] |
| Runtime: | 102 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Gross: | $428[2] |
Le Garçu (English: "The Boy") is a 1995 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu.[3] It was Pialat's final work. He was dissatisfied with the film and even planned to re-edit it, but his failing health made that impossible.[4]
Gérard, mentally still adolescent, adores Antoine, his four-year-old son with Sophie, his second and much younger wife. On a holiday to Mauritius, she finally can no longer stand his immature behaviour and returns with the child to Paris. Gérard is given a room by his ex-wife and finds himself company for the nights. Taking Sophie and Antoine for a holiday to Sables d'Olonne, they meet up with Jeannot and his partner. The woman pounces on Gérard for a night's fling, but Jeannot is seriously drawn to Sophie and, moving in with her, helps looks after little Antoine. When a hospital in Auvergne rings to say that Gérard's father ("le garçu" in the local dialect) is on his deathbed, Sophie unhesitatingly goes there with him. Her support brings the two closer again, but Gérard is never going to grow up and Jeannot has become a father to the child.
Le Garçu was filmed on Mauritius.[5]
The film was screened at the New York Film Festival on 30 September 1996.[6] In 2005, Le Garçu was screened at Dryden Theatre.[7]