Les amants [videorecording] / Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France présente ; un film de Louis Malle ; dialogues de Louise de Vilmorin ; directeur de production, Irénée Leriche ; une production Nouvelles éditions de Films.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed.; widescreen format (2.35:1).
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre, José Villalonga, Alain Cuny. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958. Special features (49 min.): interview with Malle by François Chalais & Jean-Pierre Fleury for "Cinépanorama" (1963, 10 min., b&w); interview with Malle by Angelika Wittlich (1994, 20 min., col.); interview with Moreau by Lise Eline for "Le journal télévisé" (1958, 3 min., b&w); interview with Moreau by Jacques Nahum & Raoul Sangla for "Tête d'affiche" (1972, 6 min., col.); Interview with Villalonga by France Roche for "Cinépanorama" (1958, 6 min., b&w); interview with Vilmorin by Jacques Nahum for "Démons et merveilles du cinéma" (1965, 4 min., b&w); "U.S. release" gallery, presenting an overview of the charges of obscenity leveled against the film in America & the resulting promotional materials that amplified the film's scandalous reputation. Booklet includes an essay by film historian Ginette Vincendeau ("Succès de scandale"). "New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete, uncensored version"--Container. "Enhanced for 16:9 televisions"--Disc label.
Summary:
A restless bourgeois French woman finds her eye wandering from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger.
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