Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271227 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300271226 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: December 09, 1994 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 1966 Sales Rank: 6920
Amazon.com: French 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Challenging yet Rewarding Love Story
I realized that there was a reason that I recalled "A Man and a Woman"; a film I'd never seen before. It's theme became somewhat of hit back in the late 1960's. I'm glad I finally watched the film because ... Read More
Rating: - classic movie
classic movie from the 60's. The wonderful accompanies a slow to develop but charming and simple story. I would highly recommend this movie to any filmgoer who has not experienced a Claude Lelouch movie.
Rating: - A Man and a Woman
The CD was in good condition. The price was a little high but worth it to me. Thanks
Rating: - Great music, great story, great DVD !
This is a wonderful classic French film for all times about love. The story and the music are superb ! No more words. Don't miss it. Let's include it in our particular stock of materpieces at home.
Rating: - All I could want from a foreign purchase
The movie is visually appealing and an artistic achievement. A simple story but delivered in a powerful and compelling manner.
DVD is excellent with some great special features--documentary, 20 ... Read More
- A Challenging yet Rewarding Love Story
- A Man and a Woman