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France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), French ( Mono ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends? ...Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others ( Tre amici le mogli e affettuosamente le altre ) ( Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres )
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Claude Sautet is my all time French director. He is undoubtedly one of France's most important, influential, humanist film makers. Sadly, like many of his contemporaries, such as Agnès Varda, Michel Deville, Sautet's cinematic contributions are sometimes forgotten. His early films have never been released on DVD for the British audience in UK.
In his career, he made the classiest, most romantic, elegant and sophisticated films such as Les choses de la vie (beautiful, haunting theme composed by Philippe Sarde CD is available on Amazon) and Cesar & Rosalie (starring with Yves Montand and Romy Scheider)
I can't imagine WHY there hasn't been a collection of Claude Sautet DVD films released in a box set like Eric Rohmer's or Louis Malle's films. Most of Sautet films are not available to buy on DVD. It is such a big disappointment that his beautiful films are so much under-appreciated and almost forgotten in the history of French Cinema.
Sautet's films explore one of his favourite themes - the strength of friendship in relation to the ephemeral nature of male-female romantic relationships. He is fascinated by the idea of friendship and telling a story about life/relationship challenges.
Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres is one of Sautet's most acclaimed films. It explores the importance of friendship in our lives. It's about four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives, to leisurely dine, walk through the fields, play sports, and above all, enjoy each other's company.
One thing that I most admire in Sautet's film is his refined cinemagraphy and his perpetual strive for perfection, picturesque framing and attention to details, capturing every reflection, scenery, nuance, and expression. His films concentrate on intelligent, bourgeois, cultured protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires. If the novelist, Henry James was still alive, I think Claude Sautet would be the only director he would watch.
Note: There are a lot of extras including the interviews with the actors from the film. However, there is no English subtitle (but the sound of the actors' voices had been dubbed in American English).
Recommendation: Cesar & Rosalie, Les Choses de La Vie, [Music] Le Cinema De Claude Sautet, composed by Philippe Sarde
In his career, he made the classiest, most romantic, elegant and sophisticated films such as Les choses de la vie (beautiful, haunting theme composed by Philippe Sarde CD is available on Amazon) and Cesar & Rosalie (starring with Yves Montand and Romy Scheider)
I can't imagine WHY there hasn't been a collection of Claude Sautet DVD films released in a box set like Eric Rohmer's or Louis Malle's films. Most of Sautet films are not available to buy on DVD. It is such a big disappointment that his beautiful films are so much under-appreciated and almost forgotten in the history of French Cinema.
Sautet's films explore one of his favourite themes - the strength of friendship in relation to the ephemeral nature of male-female romantic relationships. He is fascinated by the idea of friendship and telling a story about life/relationship challenges.
Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres is one of Sautet's most acclaimed films. It explores the importance of friendship in our lives. It's about four middle-class men meet in the country every weekend mainly to discuss their lives, to leisurely dine, walk through the fields, play sports, and above all, enjoy each other's company.
One thing that I most admire in Sautet's film is his refined cinemagraphy and his perpetual strive for perfection, picturesque framing and attention to details, capturing every reflection, scenery, nuance, and expression. His films concentrate on intelligent, bourgeois, cultured protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires. If the novelist, Henry James was still alive, I think Claude Sautet would be the only director he would watch.
Note: There are a lot of extras including the interviews with the actors from the film. However, there is no English subtitle (but the sound of the actors' voices had been dubbed in American English).
Recommendation: Cesar & Rosalie, Les Choses de La Vie, [Music] Le Cinema De Claude Sautet, composed by Philippe Sarde
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The things of life!
5 Sep 2008
Without any doubt we are dealing with the masterpiece of Claude Sautet. The friendship is the fit vehicle to express the peaks and lows, gathering the existential living based on disappointments, love affairs, unfinished projects and a promissory career for a boxing prospect.
This is a deep and moving film, zealously scripted, overwhelmingly acted and better directed. But Michael Piccoli (a constant choice of Sautet who always represented the figure of the antihero per excellence) in the most demanding role was specially dazzling; on one hand we have the breakthrough of his actual existence as respectable medic respect the questioning young leader in his student years and the particularly tragic destiny of his crumbling marriage.
A master film under any angle.
This is a deep and moving film, zealously scripted, overwhelmingly acted and better directed. But Michael Piccoli (a constant choice of Sautet who always represented the figure of the antihero per excellence) in the most demanding role was specially dazzling; on one hand we have the breakthrough of his actual existence as respectable medic respect the questioning young leader in his student years and the particularly tragic destiny of his crumbling marriage.
A master film under any angle.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great film for French speaking people as it stands.
24 Sep 2008
The problem is that this excellent movie is only in French! Can anyone consider adding english language before retailing it?
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E.Renard
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Very good.
2 Sep 2002
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If you're a fan of Yves Montand & Michel Piccoli (as I am), you'll be happy you got this movie. A bitter-sweet story of middle-aged pals who all have disappointments/troubles but manage to hang together inspite of the life changes that threaten to pull them apart.
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