À nos amours: The Masters of Cinema Series

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À nos amours: The Masters of Cinema Series
Review added by
David Beckett

Certificate: 15
Running Time: 95
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date: 22/03/2010
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Maurice Pialat's serene, perilous masterwork provides the movie romance a definitive check and eminently deceptive balance — the X scratched on top of the O.

In one of the astonishing film debuts, Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.

Woven through with indelible images and heart-stopping moments (and culminating in the infamous "dinner party scene"), A nos amours. [To Our Romance. / Here's to Love.] is a pure creation, a film that will live so long as there's still either movies or love. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Pialat's landmark film for the first time on DVD in the UK.

Special Features:
• Gorgeous new anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio
• New and improved English subtitle translations
• 16-minute 2003 interview with star Sandrine Bonnaire
• L'Œil humain [The Human Eye], a 55-minute film by director Xavier Giannoli that analyses A nos amours
• 14-minute excerpt from a 1983 TV interview with Maurice Pialat from the set of A nos amours
• 31 minutes of video screen-tests from 1982
• Original theatrical trailer for A nos amours
• Trailers for six other Maurice Pialat films released by The Masters of Cinema Series
• 48-page booklet.