- Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange, Antoine Sire
- Directors: Claude Lelouch
- Writers: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Producers: Claude Lelouch
- Format: PAL, Subtitled, Colour, Black & White
- Language French
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 7 Mar 1994
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004COD9
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,444 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
French film-maker Claude Lelouch continues to take critical heat for this 1966 international hit, which has been labelled "schmaltzy" and dismissed as overly stylised 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 drily 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 film-making peers did at the time, he certainly enjoys what he's doing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A classic arthouse movie,
By A Customer
This review is from: Un Homme Et Une Femme [VHS] [1966] [1967] (VHS Tape)
A Man and a Woman is French "subtitle" film at its best. In a style that is now regularly parodied by perfume adverts and French & Saunders, the film is a combination of long dialogues, lingering camera shots, sports cars, smoking, colour and black and white shots and samba music. The main characters are beautiful just to look at, while the French language sounds beautifully romantic in comparison to English flirtation. Anouk Aimee went on to marry Albert Finney. The film is both passionate and engaging while not being cheesey or intense. It is enough to inspire someone to move abroad and fall in love!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect,
By A Customer
This review is from: Un Homme Et Une Femme [VHS] [1966] [1967] (VHS Tape)
A beautiful film with a beautiful musical score that's so evocative of France in the 1960s. First time around it DID inspire me to move to Paris and it hasn't lost any of its magic for me today. I just wish that they'd release a CD with the original score - my old vinyl LP is a bit scratchy now.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best films ever - legendary and rightly,
By A Customer
This review is from: Un Homme Et Une Femme [VHS] [1966] [1967] (VHS Tape)
This is absolutely one of my most favourite films - moving, romantic, amusing, bitter-sweet, heartwarming. The two stars are very attractive which makes it even better. Entertaining subplot of motor-racing which amazingly fits in perfectly with the romance. Gorgeous from start to finish and you hardly notice it isn't in colour.
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