A Man and a Woman
by Claude Lelouch
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Actor: Anouk Aimée, Antoine Sire, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie LagrangeDirector: Claude Lelouch
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 24312
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- From director CLAUDE LELOUCH (And Now.Ladies and Gentlemen) comes this 1966ic, a tender, visually exciting film of revitalizing love: a race-car driver (JEAN-LOUIS TRINIGNANT) and a movie script girl (ANOUK AIMEE) share a romance filled with humor and truth, intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood. Winner of Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.Running
Movie Reviews of A Man and a Woman
Movie Review: Timeless.
Summary: 5 Stars
Claude Lelouch's *A Man and a Woman* is the movie to be condemned for inaugurating what has become one of the worst cliches in movies: the "falling-in-love-while-romantic-music-plays-on-the-score montage". You know it by heart: the couple walking on the beach, laughing at each other over coffee, staring dreamily at each other in bed, ad nauseum, while sappy music tinkles on in the background. Still, that's no reason to despise this groundbreaking and hugely influential 1966 film. As it was the first to use this romantic convention in the movies, *A Man and a Woman* should be cut some slack; and in any case, the thousands of directors who have copied this device have not remotely approached the level of skill, poignancy, and sheer manic intensity to get as many different shots as possible that Lelouch displays here. This film is as clear testimony as any to the enduring influence of the New Wave on cinema. Beyond its historic significance, it's a damn engrossing, romantic picture, featuring a couple we come to like very much. The Man, superbly underplayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant, is a race-car champion and widower with a young son in elementary school. The Woman, a never-lovelier Anouk Aimee, is what they used to call a "script-girl" (i.e., production assistant) in the movie biz: she's a widow with a young daughter of her own who attends the same school that Trintignant's boy attends. Inevitably, the parents become acquainted and fall tentatively in love. As we watch Aimee and Trintignant struggle to balance career, parenting, and a new chance at romance, it becomes clear that we're watching a love story about and for grown-ups. In other words, these are real people, and rarely in the movies does one root harder for a relationship to succeed -- after all, these two are very much like ourselves. (Despite Lelouch's fondness for the Good Life as evinced by his characters' rather glamorous professions.) With its literally thousands of shots and jump-cuts, and its grand romantic passion tempered with the pragmatic problems of daily life, *A Man and a Woman* emerges as a light, impressionistic, and deeply felt love story for the ages. [The DVD by the Dreaded Warner Bros. is -- get this -- shockingly good. This is the best product they've put out -- that I own at any rate -- since their *Citizen Kane* release. Unfortunately, the widescreen is still "matted", but at least it's enhanced for widescreen TV's -- a large improvement for Warner Bros. Most valuable is a short "Making Of" documentary, which shows the hectic Lelouch at work. The bravado he displays while working merely shows that he knew he was making a great film, here. All in all, the movie and this new DVD get my highest recommendation.]
Summary of A Man and a Woman
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/17/2004 Rating: NrFrench filmmaker Claude Lelouch continues to take critical heat for this 1966 international hit, which has been labeled "schmaltzy" and dismissed as overly stylized for its simple story line. While it certainly can't be mistaken for a masterpiece of the French New Wave (Lelouch was left in the dust that year by such wonders as Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin), A Man and a Woman has a jumpy impressionism that engages a viewer precisely because it cuts against conventional expectations of romance. Starring Anouk Aimée as a widowed "script girl" (working in film production) and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a racer who lost his wife to suicide, the film is really an objective sampling--almost a study--of moments between the time the two characters meet and the point at which they begin to read each other intuitively. Generous flashbacks fill in details on the pair's woeful, recent histories, while endless documentary-like glimpses of Aimée's and Trintignant's characters at work in their highly charged professions become a visual engine for the days passing between measured developments in love. Lelouch is more dryly humane than lush in his approach, though the film strains once in a while for a forced naturalism that can actually be more narcissistic than the most obvious romantic contrivance. Still, A Man and a Woman--in the best sense--is also a movie in love with itself, with its own ability to evoke and conjure and construct dozens of different ways of tracking a relationship in progress. If Lelouch doesn't exactly push open the boundaries of cinema as several of his filmmaking peers did at the time, he certainly enjoys what he's doing. --Tom Keogh
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