1304 A Man and a Woman

[Finch]

Claude Lelouch’s Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars’ chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai’s unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Claude Lelouch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New interview with Lelouch
Making-of documentary shot on location
Archival footage of Lelouch at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
C’était un rendez-vous (1976), a short film by Lelouch, with a new introduction by the director
Trailers
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey

New cover by Eric Skillman

[domino harvey]

I knew this had to be with someone! Can’t believe this has been MIA for so long now

[Buttery Jeb]

Surprised this isn't being bundled with A Man and A Woman: 20 Years Later; although I just noticed there was a second sequel, The Best Years of a Life, that came out in 2019, that I wasn't previously aware of.

C’était un rendez-vous (1976), a short film by Lelouch, with a new introduction by the director

Almost worth the price of this release alone; one of the most fun (and legally problematic) short films I've ever seen.

[domino harvey]

Here’s some discussion on the short from earlier this year

[domino harvey]

Surprised this isn't being bundled with A Man and A Woman: 20 Years Later; although I just noticed there was a second sequel, The Best Years of a Life, that came out in 2019, that I wasn't previously aware of.

WB released the first sequel on DVD-R through the Archives, don’t think they had the third film though

[knives]

Surprised this isn't being bundled with A Man and A Woman: 20 Years Later; although I just noticed there was a second sequel, The Best Years of a Life, that came out in 2019, that I wasn't previously aware of.

C’était un rendez-vous (1976), a short film by Lelouch, with a new introduction by the director

Almost worth the price of this release alone; one of the most fun (and legally problematic) short films I've ever seen.

Was thinking all of this.

[vertigo]

Finally a release from Criterion I'd like to own. Isn't an UHD in France? Well, they don't talk so much, I can read French if it's subtitled, I don't know if it is. Le bons et mechants is very good. Toute une vie is very good, Un autre homme une autre femme is excellent, very good indeed, Robert et Robert is good, and Les miserables too. Viva la vie, is amazing . Le voyou is very funny, there's a lot of good films, like Un homme qui me plait (terrific ending, terrible, very sad) or that film with Candice Bergen that I don't remember how is calles.

La belle histoire is horrible and long. The other Belmondo's movie is awful... and long, that 80s one.
Review.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/subsite/film2/ ... lu-ray.htm

This extra from WB DVD is missing

'37 Years Later with Claude Lelouch' Interview - 12:48

Two fine videos about Monsieur Lelouch, great channel
Blow Up, l'actualité du cinéma (ou presque) - ARTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkl6j7SPh18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlLN-Go6trk

[domino harvey]

Revisited the film and it remains not great, though even my unenthused response can’t deny that the last twenty minutes are indeed tres romantic, to the extent that much of the effusiveness of its initial audience response shows how crucial ending a picture well is. Too bad about the rest of the film, which alternately looks like a soap commercial, a Robert Drew doc, and a bad commercial film masquerading as a New Wave film. The color filters remain as meaningless as ever. Kid improv grinds everything to a halt far too often also. Hilarious that this won best screenplay at the Oscars (who has ever praised this film’s script?) and it’s most notable elements, Trintignant and the score, weren’t even nominated. Aimee’s Oscar nom is so bizarre - she doesn’t do anything here! Truly of a piece with Marie-Christine Barrault’s nom a decade later. I don’t know if this film will ever reclaim its once lofty legacy after decades of unavailability, but Criterion did put some effort into this package for those more amenable to the whole

[starmanof51]

I agree (or at least can't really disagree) with everything you said, Domino, and yet I remain a sucker for it, after all these years