The French Collection: Vol. 4 - Emmanuel Beart - 3-DVD Box Set ( La belle noiseuse - Divertmento / Histoire de Marie et Julien / Les témoins ) ( The Beautiful Troublemaker / The Story of Marie and Julien / The Witnesses )

The French Collection: Vol. 4 - Emmanuel Beart - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La belle noiseuse - Divertmento / Histoire de Marie et Julien / Les témoins
Alternate Title: The Beautiful Troublemaker / The Story of Marie and Julien / The Witnesses
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
382 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1991 - 2007 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jacques Rivette
AndrÃ© TÃ©chinÃ©

Written By:
Pascal Bonitzer
Christine Laurent
AndrÃ© TÃ©chinÃ©
Laurent Guyot

Actors:
Michel Piccoli ..... Edouard Frenhofer
Jane Birkin ..... Liz
Emmanuelle Beart ..... Marianne
Marianne Denicourt ..... Julienne
David Bursztein ..... Nicolas
Gilles Arbona ..... Porbus
Marie Belluc ..... Magali
Marie-Claude Roger ..... FranÃ§oise
LeÃ¯la Remili ..... La servante
Daphne Goodfellow ..... Deux touristes
Susan Robertson ..... Deux touristes
Bernard Dufour ..... La main du peintre
Emmanuelle Beart ..... Marie
Jerzy Radziwilowicz ..... Julien MÃ¼ller
Anne Brochet ..... Madame X
Bettina Kee ..... Adrienne
Olivier Cruveiller ..... L'Ã©diteur
Mathias Jung ..... Le concierge
Nicole Garcia ..... L'amie
Michel Blanc ..... Adrien
Emmanuelle Beart ..... Sarah
Sami Bouajila ..... Mehdi
Julie Depardieu ..... Julie
Johan LibÃ©reau ..... Manu
Constance DollÃ© ..... Sandra
Lorenzo Balducci ..... Steve
Alain Cauchi ..... Sheriff
David Barbas ..... Medhi's colleague
Xavier Beauvois ..... L'Ã©diteur
RaphaÃ«line Goupilleau ..... La mÃ¨re de Julie et Manu
Jacques Nolot ..... Le patron de l'hÃ´tel
MaÃ¯a Simon ..... La mÃ¨re de Sarah
Bertrand Soulier ..... Doctor #1

Synopsis:

The Beautiful Troublemaker / La Belle Noiseuse - Divertmento (1991)
Frenhofer (Michel Piccoli), a renowned French artist, hasn't lifted his brush in years. But when he meets the stunningly beautiful girlfriend (Emmanuelle Beart) of a young painter visiting his chateau, she inspires him to return to work on an abandoned masterpiece, known as "La Belle Noiseuse."***WARNING***La belle noiseuse - 1.33:1***

The Story of Marie and Julien / Histoire De Marie Et Julien (2003)
Julien (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), a mature, unmarried watchmaker, meets the young, beautiful and vulnerable Marie (Emmanuelle Beart). The intense love sparked off between the two, leads them to shelter in a place where neither life nor death exist, a house where dream and reality merge...

The Witnesses (2007)
Handsome young Manu (Johan Liberau) arrives in Paris where he shares a cheap hotel room with his sister (Julie Depardieu). He soon strikes up a platonic friendship with fifty something Adrien (Michel Blanc) who introduces Manu to his friends Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart) and her partner Mehdi (Sami Bouajila). Unexpectedly, sparks fly between Manu and Mehdi and the two embark upon a secret and passionate affair that will ultimately change everybody's lives.

The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model. The now starting creative process changes life for everyone. It is a struggle for truth, life and sense, and the question where the limits of arts are or whether art is limitless.***WARNING***La belle noiseuse - 1.33:1***

The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from Julien, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns Julien that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. Julien responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can Julien, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?

The Witnesses (2007)
Handsome provincial gay adolescent Manu moves to Paris, where his opera-singer sibling welcomes him, and leads a careless, profitable life of lust 'behind the bushes'. Picked up by old doctor Adrien, he enjoys being shown the finer sides of Parisian life but refuses a romantic commitment. On a sea holiday with common friends, Manu is saved from drowning by Mehdi, a Magrhebinian Paris vice detective, whose open marriage is under strain because his wife neglects their baby. That kiss of life is the start of a passionate but secret affair. Manu breaks it off and first takes a menial job in a camping. Manu moves in with Adrien, who is part of France's medical AIDS help pioneer society, after being diagnosed sero-positive.

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