102 mins |
Rated
Not Rated
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Pierre Barouh
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
A MAN AND A WOMAN (Claude Lelouch, 1966, 102min)
In A MAN AND A WOMAN, race car driver Trintignant and “la scripte-girl” Aimée meet at
their kids’ boarding school, and then the flashbacks and Francis Lai’s can’t-get-it-out-of-
your-head main love theme begin, in the undeniably romantic international smash hit –
winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and two Academy Awards® (Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay) and two nominations (Best Director and Best Actress).
Director, writer, cinematographer, and producer Claude Lelouch was born in Paris in 1937. The son of Jewish parents (his mother was a convert to Judaism), he credits the cinema for saving his life during the war. Says Lelouch, “My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wanted by the Gestapo.”
With the gift of a movie camera from his father after the war, Lelouch began using it to chronicle actual events, including a film about life in the Soviet Union, made with a camera hidden under his coat, and sporting events like the Tour de France. As a young man in the French army’s Film Unit in the 1950s, he worked on over 100 films.
Lelouch became an internationally recognized director with A MAN AND A WOMAN,
which he shot in both color and black and white. The film holds an all-time record at New
York's Paris Theater where it ran for 65 weeks in 1966 and 1967. In Los Angeles it ran for an even longer run of over 2 years at the Plaza Theater in Westwood.
Praise for A MAN AND A WOMAN
“Probably the most efficacious make-out movie of the swinging 60s.”
– Pauline Kael
"A tender, visually stirring film of rejuvenating love between a widow and a widower: Trintignant and Aimée share a candid romance while balancing the demands of career and parenthood. It’s a touching, realistic look at a burgeoning adult romance, with each participant encumbered by a past tragedy, causing them to proceed delicately.
Also famous for Francis Lai’s gorgeous, swooning score…Quite possibly one of the sweetest love stories ever captured on screen.”
– Wilson Chapman, IndieWire
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CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
A MAN AND A WOMAN (Claude Lelouch, 1966, 102min)
In A MAN AND A WOMAN, race car driver Trintignant and “la scripte-girl” Aimée meet at
their kids’ boarding school, and then the flashbacks and Francis Lai’s can’t-get-it-out-of-
your-head main love theme begin, in the undeniably romantic international smash hit –
winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and two Academy Awards® (Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay) and two nominations (Best Director and Best Actress).
Director, writer, cinematographer, and producer Claude Lelouch was born in Paris in 1937. The son of Jewish parents (his mother was a convert to Judaism), he credits the cinema for saving his life during the war. Says Lelouch, “My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wanted by the Gestapo.”
With the gift of a movie camera from his father after the war, Lelouch began using it to chronicle actual events, including a film about life in the Soviet Union, made with a camera hidden under his coat, and sporting events like the Tour de France. As a young man in the French army’s Film Unit in the 1950s, he worked on over 100 films.
Lelouch became an internationally recognized director with A MAN AND A WOMAN,
which he shot in both color and black and white. The film holds an all-time record at New
York's Paris Theater where it ran for 65 weeks in 1966 and 1967. In Los Angeles it ran for an even longer run of over 2 years at the Plaza Theater in Westwood.
Praise for A MAN AND A WOMAN
“Probably the most efficacious make-out movie of the swinging 60s.”
– Pauline Kael
"A tender, visually stirring film of rejuvenating love between a widow and a widower: Trintignant and Aimée share a candid romance while balancing the demands of career and parenthood. It’s a touching, realistic look at a burgeoning adult romance, with each participant encumbered by a past tragedy, causing them to proceed delicately.
Also famous for Francis Lai’s gorgeous, swooning score…Quite possibly one of the sweetest love stories ever captured on screen.”
– Wilson Chapman, IndieWire
