Love on a Pillow (1962) ( Le Repos du guerrier ) ( Il Riposo del guerriero )

Love on a Pillow (1962) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Repos du guerrier
Alternate Title: Il Riposo del guerriero
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Roger Vadim

Written By:
Roger Vadim
Christiane Rochefort

Actors:
Brigitte Bardot ..... Geneviève Le Theil
Robert Hossein ..... Renaud Sarti
Jean-Marc Bory ..... Pierre Leroy
Michel Serrault ..... Varange
Jacqueline Porel ..... Mme. Le Theil, Geneviève's Mother
Jean-Marc Tennberg ..... Coco
Robert Dalban ..... Police Sergeant
Ursula Kubler ..... Nurse
Christian Melsen ..... Police Inspector
Macha Méril ..... Raphaële (as Macha Meril)
James Robertson Justice ..... Katov, Sculptor

Synopsis:

Directed by Roger Vadim, Love On A pillow is a story of all-consuming love between a nice upper class girl and a troubled, self-destructive young man. Geneviève (Brigitte Bardot) is on her way to settle an inheritance in Dijon when she walks in the wrong hotel room to find Renaud (Robert Hossein), a young man, having just attempted suicide. She saves him and they quickly embark on an intense affair, against the advice of her friends and her own better judgment. Whilst Geneviève seems determined to follow a self-destructive course and forgives Renaud's every infidelity, perhaps he too will soon find himself spiraling out of control.

When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 July, 2012.