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| The Lovers - Criterion Collection | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-marc Bory, Patricia Garcin, Michele Girardon
Studio: Criterion Collection
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 11663
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: IMEDCC1751D
UPC: 715515029629
EAN: 0715515029629
ASIN: B00152VXUI
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 90 minutes
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 Malle's Scandalous 'Lovers.' May 7, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Louis Malle's controversial 1958 film, The Lovers (Les Amants), tells the not-so-scandalous-by-today's-standards story of a middle-aged, French woman (Jeanne Moreau, Malle's love interest at the time), who leaves both her boring husband, Henri (Alain Cuny), and her Paris lover, Raoul (Jose Villalonga), for a younger man, Bernard (Jean-Marc Bory) after a night of passion with the stranger. "There's no resisting happiness," she explains (which left me less than convinced). The sexually frank film resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court case defining "obscenity." ("I know it when I see it," Justice Stewart wrote in the Court's landmark decision, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964).) This film not only established Moreau as a star in the '60s, but permanently associated Brahms Sextet in B-flat Major with Moreau's sexual abandon in the film. (While Brahms plays, Moreau appears in a half-naked tryst.) Moreau provides a voice-over narration for the film to reveal her character's feelings. Henri Decae's crisp black and white cinematography is luminous. Although I have given this film a five-star rating, the story is conventional by today's standards.
The Criterion edition features a newly restored transfer of the complete, uncensored film; a selection of archival interviews with Louis Malle, actors Jeanne Moreau and Jose Luis de Villalonga, and writer Louise de Vilmorin; promotional material from the U.S. theatrical release; and a new essay by film historian Ginette Vincendeau.
G. Merritt
remarkable film making May 3, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have seen this film when it first came out some 40 years ago and I will never forget it. It proves that a love making act can be presented with an autmost purity and sensitivity, and without the need for pornography.I cannot wait for it to be released again.
This film has stayed in my mind for 35 years. July 26, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I saw this film along with a Yiddish stage show in a theatre on south beach in Miami many years ago. It was difficult at the time, to really enjoy the movie since it was inappropriate for that particular audience as they were laughing and giggling at the very serious and sensitive scenes due to their embarrassment.I loved the movie and think about it every time I hear strains of Brahms Double Concerto, (repeated beautifully in many love scenes)"The Lovers" is a French tale of adultery without today's nudity and language - but oh so very sexy! I would recommend this movie for anyone who is a fan of Louis Malle. His direction of Jeanne Moreau is superb. I am eagerly awaiting the re-issue of this film so that I may own it and enjoy watching it again and again.
 It's the music August 20, 2004
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's the Brahms first sextet, Opus 18, that's used in this movie, not his Double Concerto, as reported by an earlier reviewer. This exquisite Brahms piece provides one of the greatest soundtracks in the history of film. (Another is the Miles Davis original soundtrack for an earlier Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud.)
I wish you carried this video. February 24, 1999
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Please get this video. It is excellent
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