Eric Rohmer Collection |  | Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr, Otto Sander
Studio: Arrow Films
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Format: PAL
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: NC-17
Region: 0
Discs: 8
Number Of Discs: 8
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 2.1
MPN: 5027035003771
EAN: 5027035003771
Release Date: June 29, 2011
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Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Booklet, Box Set, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, Short Film, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The Aviator's Wife - 1981
La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivière). However, his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day, he sees her leaving home with her ex, Christian (Mathieu Carrière), who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news, Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may have cheated on him, Francois decides to stay up all night. As he wanders, desolate, through the streets of Paris, he comes across his rival sitting in a cafe with a blonde-haired woman. Intruiged, he follows them. A young woman catches on to what he's up to and accosts him in an alley off the Buttes-Chaumont...
A Good Marriage - 1982
Le Beau Marriage, aka The Perfect Marriage, is the second of Eric Rohmer's 'Comedies et Proverbes'. Beatrice Romand (the adolescent star of Rohmer's Claire's Knee, now nicely grown up) impulsively decides that Andre Dussolier-whom she barely knows--would make an ideal husband. Now she must convince him that she'll make an ideal wife. Leaving her old boy friend in the dust, Romand launches her single-purposed pursuit of Dussolier. But because she's jumped in and started swimming without first checking the wate...Eric Rohmer Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( La femme de l'aviateur / Le beau mariage / Pauline à la plage / Les nuits de la pleine lune / Le rayon vert / L'ami de mon amie / L'amour l
After Eric Rohmer completed his "Six Moral Tales," and before launching into the "Comedies and Proverbs," he tackled two projects very different from anything else in his career. In the first of these, The Marquise of O, based on the novel by Heinrich von Kleist, Rohmer leaves the young intellectuals of Paris for Italy during the Napoleonic wars. During the Russian invasion, the beautiful young marquise (Edith Clever) is saved from certain assault by a handsome and dashing count (Bruno Ganz). She spends the night guarded by her chivalrous savior, who returns months later to rather insistently court her. Only when he leaves does she discover that she is, unaccountably, pregnant. Rohmer's style is both more lush (shot in rich colors by Néstor Almendros) and less intimate than his previous romantic comedies, directed in painterly compositions at a removed distance. Unlike the self-obsessed young adults of his modern films, the count and the marquise act out of moral duty and social responsibility, and their actions reverberate through family and community. Yet this is still a Rohmer film, filled with carefully tooled dialogue (spoken in German) and informed by irony. The story of innocence and corruption, and the shades that lie within even the best of men, ends on a note of delicate forgiveness and understanding. Rohmer followed this with an even more unexpected stylistic experiment, the beautiful and beguiling Perceval. --Sean Axmaker
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