Warner Region 1 - "A Man and a Woman"

( aka "A Man and a Woman" )

directed by Claude Lelouch
France 1966

" 'Jean-Louis Duroc (Trintignant) and Anne Gauthier (Aimée) are a man and woman. They meet accidentally picking up there children from the boarding school they attend during the week. He visits his son, she her daughter. After missing her train, he offers her a ride back to Paris. They slowly are revealing characteristics about themselves to both us and each another. They are performing the age old ritual of slowly falling in love.

The director Lelouch's is adept at telling this simple story moving from color scenes to black and white ones. We hear inside the minds of these two individuals and it ingratiates their love affair even more so into our psyche . For romantics, this is pretty much nirvana, and being a big one myself can whole heartedly recommend this as a masterpiece and a quintessential film of the 60's. "

Gary W. Tooze

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DVD Review: Warner Region 1 - NTSC

DVD Box Cover		CLICK to order from:
Distribution	Warner - Region 1 - NTSC
Runtime	1:43:00
Video	1.78:1.00 Letterboxed WideScreen / anamorphic Average Bitrate: 5.73 mb/s NTSC 960X540 29.97 f/s
Bitrate: Warner
Audio	French (Dolby Digital 2.0) , English DUB (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles	English, French, Spanish and none
Features	Release Information: Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1966 Edition details: '37 Years Later with Claude Lelouch' Interview - 12:48 'Behind the Scenes' Documentary - 22:38 (4:3) Trailer - widescreen anamorphic 1:37 Trailer for ' A Man and a Woman 20 Years Later' widescreen anamorphic 1:19 Awards - 2 static screens
Sundry:	DVD Release Date: March 18, 2003 Snapper Case Chapters: 20

Comments:

Solid stuff from Warner. It is not restored as I still see dirt and speckles in places but the contrast and colors are very good. Clean print from 66' film. The sound was acceptable although not overly applaud-able. It may have been from the verite style that the film was shot in at times though. I am suitably impressed with this offering. Good extras, great film. out of .

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The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew	French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader	Agnes Varda by Alison Smith	Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard	Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson	Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 2) by James Quandt	The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau	French New Wave by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno	French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni	Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana