Alain Resnais Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( I Want to Go Home / L'amour à mort / La vie est un roman / Mélo ) ( I Want to Go Home / Love Unto Death / Life Is a Bed of Roses / Melo )

Alain Resnais Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: I Want to Go Home / L'amour à mort / La vie est un roman / Mélo
Alternate Title: I Want to Go Home / Love Unto Death / Life Is a Bed of Roses / Melo
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
Fantasporto Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
402 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1983 - 1989 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Alain Resnais

Written By:
Jules Feiffer
Jean Gruault
Henri Bernstein
Alain Resnais

Actors:
Adolph Green ..... Joey Wellman
Laura Benson ..... Elsie Wellman
Linda Lavin ..... Lena Apthrop
Gerard Depardieu ..... Christian Gauthier
Micheline Presle ..... Isabelle Gauthier
John Ashton ..... Harry Dempsey
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Terry Amstrong
Caroline Sihol ..... Dora Dempsey
Catherine Arditi ..... La boulangÃ¨re
Albert Benchamoul ..... Un vieux villageois
FranÃ§oise Bertin ..... La cliente de la marchande de lÃ©gumes
Patrick Bonnel ..... Le boucher
Charlotte Bonnet ..... La femme chauffeur de taxi
Jean Champion ..... Le chauffeur de taxi / Taxi driver
Emmanuelle Chaulet ..... La secrÃ©taire de Gauthier / Secretary of Gauthier
Sabine AzÃ©ma ..... Elisabeth Sutter
Fanny Ardant ..... Judith Martignac
Pierre Arditi ..... Simon Roche
Andre Dussollier ..... JÃ©rÃ´me Martignac
Jean DastÃ© ..... Dr. Rozier
GeneviÃ¨ve Mnich ..... Anne Jourdet
Jean-Claude Weibel ..... Le spÃ©cialiste
Louis Castel ..... Michel Garenne
FranÃ§oise Rigal ..... Juliette Dotax
FranÃ§oise Morhange ..... Mme Vigne
Jean Champion ..... Voice
Yvette EtiÃ©vant ..... Voice
Bernard Malaterre ..... Voice
Vittorio Gassman ..... Walter Guarini
Ruggero Raimondi ..... Comte Michel Forbek / Count Michel Forbek
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Nora Winkle
Fanny Ardant ..... Livia Cerasquier
Pierre Arditi ..... Robert Dufresne
Sabine AzÃ©ma ..... Ã‰lisabeth Rousseau
Robert Manuel ..... Georges Leroux
Martine Kelly ..... Claudine Obertin
Samson Fainsilber ..... ZoltÃ¡n Forbek
VÃ©ronique Silver ..... Nathalie Holberg
Andre Dussollier ..... Raoul Vandamme
Guillaume Boisseau ..... FrÃ©dÃ©ric
Sabine Thomas ..... Marie
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu ..... School Teacher
Rodolphe Schacher ..... Pierre
Sabine AzÃ©ma ..... Romaine Belcroix
Fanny Ardant ..... Christiane Levesque
Pierre Arditi ..... Pierre Belcroix
Andre Dussollier ..... Marcel Blanc
Jacques Dacqmine ..... Dr. Remy
Hubert Gignoux ..... Le PrÃªtre
Catherine Arditi ..... Yvonne

Synopsis:

Four films made in the 1980s by French New wave director Alain Resnais. Films Comprise:
I Want to Go Home (1989)
In I Want to Go Home, American cartoonist Joey Wellman visits his estranged daughter Elsie in Paris - with disastrous results.

Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Life Is a Bed of Roses weaves together three stories set in a fantastical castle in the Ardennes forest.

Love unto Death (1984)
Love Unto Death tells the story of Elisabeth and Simon who, only weeks into a passionate relationship, must face the possibility that Simon may be on the brink of death.

Melo (1986)
In Melo, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with the pretty young wife of an old friend in 1920s Paris.

I Want to Go Home (1989)
Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.

Love Unto Death (1984)
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.

Melo (1986)
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 March, 2012.