André Téchiné Four-Film Collector's Edition (Hôtel des Amériques / J'embrasse pas / My Favorite Season / Wild Reeds)
by André Téchiné
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Actor: Élodie Bouchez, Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Gaël Morel, Stéphane RideauDirector: André Téchiné
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Jacques Nolot
Writer: André Téchiné
Writer: Gilles Taurand
Writer: Isabelle Coudrier-Kleist
Writer: Michel Grisolia
Writer: Olivier Massart
Writer: Pascal Bonitzer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 452 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of André Téchiné Four-Film Collector's Edition (Hôtel des Amériques / J'embrasse pas / My Favorite Season / Wild Reeds)
Movie Review: Sex Rules
Summary: 5 Stars
A set of four movies:
-Hotel America
The beautiful Helene (Catherine Deneuve) works in a hospital as an anaesthesiologist. She accidentally hits Gilles (Patrick Dewaere) while driving her car.
The two of them go back and forth in a cat-and-mouse game until Helene tires of going nowhere and decides to leave for Paris.
Gille's attraction to a friend of him makes him rather dull than real.
-J'embrasse pas (I do not kiss)
Young, naive and innocent, Pierre (Manuel Blanc) has dreams of becoming an actor.
He gets a job as an orderly at a hospital and is further supported by an older woman (Helene Vincent), a nurse he has met there, in return for his sexual favours.
However, in his acting class, he quickly discovers that he is not overflowing with talent and becomes a full-time sex worker.
He has the poor judgement to fall in love with a high-class prostitute (Emmanuelle Bart) and earns the antagonism of her pimp.
Less dramatic than Mandragora or Twist, but to some extend similar to Scum in consequences for selling body while being straight.
-My Favourite Season
Family matriarch Berthe (Marthe Villalonga) is advancing in years and developing health problems, so she goes to live with her daughter Emilie (Catherine Deneuve).
When Christmas arrives, Emilie's troubled brother Antoine (Daniel Auteuil) arrives at the house for a visit. He and Emilie have not spoken since their father's funeral three years ago. Despite his attempts to maintain control, Antoine quickly comes into conflict with Bruno. Painful emotional realities from the past return and cause violent conclusions.
Incest motives.
-Wild Reeds
This is a nostalgic French coming-of-age drama set in a Provence deeply divided over the war for independence being waged against French colonialism in Algeria of 1962.
A class master is attracted to a former pupil-a soldier having arrived from Algeria for getting married and deserting from army, while at boarding school brother of him spent a night with a fellow school lad happened to be the best friend of a class master's daughter-young communist.
In addition, a daughter shared her favours with a pupil of the same class-a French-Algerian radical twenty-one y.o. man having his own plans on her gay beau, as a soldier was being killed in Algeria on his return and his young wife was looking at possibilities with his younger brother searching between partners in and out a school.
A really nice clever movie is more interesting than Summer Storm.
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Summary of André Téchiné Four-Film Collector's Edition (Hôtel des Amériques / J'embrasse pas / My Favorite Season / Wild Reeds)
ANDRE TECHINE BOXSET - DVD MovieA troubled family, living in genteel, suburban comfort in the south of France is jolted by the deteriorating health of their elderly grandmother and the reappearance of an absented sibling. Catherine Deneuve plays Emilie, a disillusioned parent and frustrated wife, who finds herself drawn away from her unimaginative husband toward her brother, a jealous and charismatic neurosurgeon. Structured like a novella with four chapters, Téchiné's film is riddled with long stretches of ponderous, often humorless, philosophical dialogue. Deneuve's Emilie remains inexpressive and remote; she occupies the moral center of the film, but her characterization isn't generous enough to grant us access to her motivations. Daniel Auteuil fares better as brother Antoine--his odd features and intelligent eyes communicate fathomless restlessness and longing. Spectacular, jaw-dropping footage of Southern France provides a gorgeous backdrop for many scenes, lending a depth and resonance that might otherwise be lacking. Bonus: Marcello Mastroianni's daughter Chiara portrays Emilie's daughter; she's a delight to watch and she acquits herself marvelously. --Miles Bethany
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