The Lovers - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Jeanne Moreau, Mich?le Girardon, Patricia GarcinBrand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Henri Deca?
Composer: Johannes Brahms
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of The Lovers - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Woman's sexual freedom = scandal!
Summary: 5 Stars
It is amazing to see the film made in late 50s and realize that this film has caused a stir all over the world, US included. In the Midwest, this film was considered obscene and it is the Supreme Court that granted this movie not be equaled with pornography. Made in black and white, this Malle's film is even more artistic in today's era. Story is about a upper middle class married woman who lives in provinces (Dijon) with her newspaper editor husband. She lives seemingly comfortable life in a large house, with full time nanny and servants. Her husbands pays her very little or no attention, he is cold and emotionally unavailable. They sleep in separate bedrooms. To find some amusement, young wife Jeanne goes to Paris to visit her married childhood friend who mingles in high society. It is there that she finds a lover, well-to-do polo player who she sees regularly until one day her husband decides to put a stop to her trips to Paris and have his wife's "friends" come a visit for the weekend. He is determined to re-establish his dominion over his household and of course, his wife. It is in preparation of this weekend, that Jeanne's car breaks down on the road and she gets a ride from the handsome, young stranger to her home. As a token of gratitude, young man is invited for a supper and to spend a night in the house before he takes off to his destination the next day. Frustrated that she cannot be with her lover, and outraged by her husband's possesive behavior, Jeanne wonders outside her bedroom at night, in the garden, where she and her mysterious savior find each other. Before long, they realize strong attraction between them and make love in the garden and her bedroom. Jeanne is sure she has found her soulmate and decides to leave everything behind: her young daughter Catherine, the big house, jewelry, clothes, everything. In the dawn of the new day, as house guests are getting ready for the fishing trip, Jeanne and her lover leave house never to return again. I do not believe that it is lovemaking scenes alone that made this film scandalous at the time. This woman is almost like D.H. Lawrence's wife, who left her comfortable upper-middle class life of a wife and a mother for the big unknown with a much younger man. All she is certain of is that she wants to be with a man she has met and there is no price to it. She will sacrifice everything for her own happiness no matter how short, or long that happiness will last. I have enjoyed watching interviews from a film director, actors and screenwriter and find film utterly beautiful and powerful, 50 years after it was made. It is a film that celebrates woman's sexuality and her power to make her own choices.
Summary of The Lovers - Criterion Collection
Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers> (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas, The Lovers presents Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger (Jean-Marc Bory). Thanks to its frank sexuality, The Lovers caused quite a stir, being censored and attacked for obscenity around the world. If today its shock has worn off, its glistening sensuality and seductive storytelling haven't aged a day.Special Features
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete, uncensored version
* - Selection of archival interviews with Louis Malle, actors Jeanne Moreau and Jos? Luis de Villalonga, and writer Louise de Vilmorin
* - Gallery of promotional material from the U.S. theatrical release
* - New and improved English subtitle translation
* - PLUS: A new essay by film historian Ginette Vincendeau
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