Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement - A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
Lancelot Du Lac (1974)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan… - Bresson endows the legend of King Arthur with his unique style and vision, and exposes a density of ideas by stripping the story back to its base…
Love in the Rain (Un amour de pluie) (1974)- Dir. Jean-Claude Brialy
Feat. Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon - More pomp and circumstance from Romy Schneider, here playing a well–to–do French woman indulging in various love affairs while holidaying…
Martha (1974)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm - Addressing his favourite subject, emotional cruelty, Dir. Fassbinder skillfully works a vein of pitch–black comedy in depicting Margit…
Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya - Appropriately titled autobiography of Tarkovsky's childhood, impressioned by the volatile cultural environment. Unique in both form and vision, this…
Stavisky (1974)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey… - Belmondo lends his shafty screen persona to the role of notorious financier, swindler, and raconteur Alexandre Stavisky, whose monetary exploits and…
Wim Wenders Road Movies (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road) (1974-1976)- Dir. Wim Wenders
- Boxset compilation of a further three Wim Wenders touchstones, each variations on the quintessential road movie.
Burned Barns, The (Les granges brulées) (1973)- Dir. Jean Chapot
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret - Moody provincial drama of death and betrayal reunites Delon and Signoret, this time on opposite sides of the law. More a character study than a…
Day For Night (La Nuit Americaine) (1973)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud… - The blueprint film about film–making – made a few decades before it became fashionable – mirroring the first–hand experiences…
Fear Eats the Soul (1973)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem - A sort of remake of Douglas Sirk's older woman–younger man melodrama "All That Heaven Allows", with added plot weirds countered by typical…
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