Un Coeur en Hiver
 | A Heart in WinterDirected by Claude Sautet Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Élisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon Koch Lorber Films, 1993, DVD Customer Rating: 74 reviews Recommend |
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- Daniel Auteuil (12-time C sar Award nominee for BestActor), Emmanuelle B art and Andr Dussolli r star inthis sublimely sensual, provocative and critically-acclaimed film. Camille (B art), a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane, an aloof repairer of fine musical instruments. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction, but Stephane i
Daniel Auteuil (Manon of the Spring) stars as Stephane, the curiously diffident co-owner of an exclusive violin brokerage and repair shop. A brilliant technician, Stephane can make any instrument live up to its promise, yet he himself is emotionally remote and disconnected from passionate experience. His partner, Maxime (André Dussollier), lacks Stephane's gifts but is rich in personality and desire. When Maxime's new lover, a violinist named Camille (Emmanuelle Béart), is drawn to Stephane's still waters, he is briefly moved, thus destroying the fragile, symbiotic relationship between all three individuals.
"Two Thumbs Up!" – Siskel & Ebert
"[it] has the intensity and delicacy of a great short story." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"superb…haunting...full of unexpected beauty, richness and feeling" – Hal Hinson, Washington Post
WINNER – César Award, Best Director
WINNER – César Award, Best Supporting Actor
WINNER – Venice Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize
WINNER – Venice Film Festival, Silver Lion
WINNER – London Critics Circle Film Awards, Foreign Language Film of the Year
WINNER – European Film Awards, Best Actor
WINNER – David di Donatello Award, Best Foreign Actor, Best Foreign Actress
WINNER – David di Donatello Award, Best Foreign Film
WINNER – French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, Best Film
Daniel Auteuil (Manon of the Spring) plays Stephane, the curiously diffident coowner of an exclusive violin brokerage and repair shop. A brilliant technician, Stephane can make any instrument live up to its promise, yet he is emotionally remote himself, disconnected from passionate experience. His partner, Maxime (André Dussollier), lacks Stephane's gifts but is rich in personality and desire. When Maxime's new lover, a violinist named Camille (Emmanuelle Béart), is drawn to Stephane's still waters, the latter is briefly moved, thus destroying the fragile, symbiotic relationship between all three individuals. Veteran French filmmaker Claude Sautet (of the Oscar-winning César et Rosalie) has made a powerful film here expressed in the smallest of gestures, just as one might tune the strings of a violin ever-so-slightly to achieve perfection. Sautet indeed employs such a sonorous motif in this story, in which violins always seem to be playing and suggesting that the principal characters look at life as they do music: something to be tinkered with and manipulated for effect. — Tom Keogh
Title: Un Coeur en Hiver ( A Heart in Winter )
Sales Rank: 12331 in DVD
Actor: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Élisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon
Director: Claude Sautet
Studio: Koch Lorber Films, 2006-11-07, Theatrical Release: 1993-06-04
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.66:1
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: Unrated
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.25 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
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