SelectionCinema critics from “The World” invite you to spend Christmas and New Years at home on your sofa watching movies.
Tradition respected again this year on the DVD shelves with a beautiful harvest of reissues and boxes. Despite a substantial cinema offer on streaming platforms and on specialized channels, the disc format continues to seduce thanks to its bonuses, its editorialization and the quality of a restored image.
- Francois Truffaut
“The Adventures of Antoine Doinel”
In 1958, François Truffaut had it published in France-Evening a small announcement : “Looking for a boy aged 12 to 14 to play a role in a cinema film. “ He is about to turn The four hundred Blows (1959), an autobiographical film about childhood, the story of a kid from Paris, unloved and brazen, who responds to the name of Antoine Doinel. Among the hundred or so postulants, there is a certain Jean-Pierre Léaud. Truffaut is won over. He has just met his double, his alter ego, a spiritual son. Léaud / Truffaut, now inseparable, merge, merge into a film character, stronger than life: Antoine Doinel. Which returns from film to film. Teenager in love in Antoine and Colette, medium-length film released in 1962; romantic young man, slightly lunar, unpredictable, deliciously awkward in Stolen kisses (1968), Marital home (1970) and Love on the run (1979). This set is the fruit of this unique encounter between a filmmaker and his actor. Which, in addition to the five films mentioned (for the first time, presented in a sublime 4K restoration), offers many bonuses (interviews with Truffaut, his actors and his technical teams; tests with the actors; short film The Mistons, 1957).
- Wong kar-wai
“In The Mood for Love”
The oldest story in the world: a man and a woman love each other with an impossible love. Hong Kong, 1962. He is editor-in-chief, she is secretary. Both are married and move into neighboring apartments the same day. Their respective spouses, who are often absent, leave them alone most of the time. So, Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) cross, brush against each other, look at each other, meet, talk to each other. They will suffer, cry, waver and give up. Rarely in the same shot, returned to their solitude, Wong Kar-wai films them in spaces cramped and partitioned, dark and burning with a disturbing sensuality, by the grace of the lighting. Faces and bodies as irradiated with a desire that cannot be satisfied. From this story as old as the world, the filmmaker makes a masterpiece imbued with an infinite melancholy that this collector’s box, enriched with three hours of bonuses and a book of exclusive photos from the film, allows you to review in version sumptuously restored.
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