Claude Lelouch

[knives]

It was one of the first films of his I heard about (and even saw).my impression is that it’s always been one of his big ones. He even gave it a truly awful remake a few years ago.

[Maltic]

I chuckled when A Man and a Woman got an homage as one of Wallace Shawn's Pantheon films in Rifkin's Festival along with Citizen Kane, 8½, The Exterminating Angel and of course various Bergman films, and now I did the same reading the first pages of this thread.

[The Curious Sofa]

When I got into film in the 70s, I was aware that Lelouch was considered the lightweight among French filmmakers of the 60s, and that A Man and a Woman had a reputation as the idiot's art-house film. As an aspiring film snob, I never saw it, although my parents, like everyone's parents, had the soundtrack album.

The film of Lelouch that I did see several times on television was Another Man, Another Woman aka Another Man, Another Chance, which reworked the premise as an epic Western. I remember liking it, probably because I liked Westerns and because I adore Geneviève Bujold. But I haven't seen it since the 80s, so I wonder how it holds up.

[domino harvey]

It’s odd that Warners has let it go OOP, surely there’s still a generation of boomers who remember it fondly, even though it has almost no modern audience due to its unavailability (and perhaps also because it’s not that great…). Hell, wasn’t Brad Pitt just in an ads campaign inspired by it? You’d think they’d at least put it out on Blu via the Archives or license it to a boutique, France has had a non-English friendly Blu out forever. Another canon title erased from relevancy due to being MIA on home video

Also, thanks for the context on the short Saturnome— quite interesting!