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Francois Truffaut's LOVE ON THE RUN finds the director's alter ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), in his mid-30s. Relatively content with his young, beautiful lover, Sabine (Dorothee), Antoine still runs from woman to woman, looking to fill the gap in his life--a void that exists because of his inability to commit in relationships and because of his mother's recent death. As Antoine gains self-awareness, slowly comprehending the reasons for his emptiness, he reflects back on his various relationships. These experiences are related in part through black-and-white flashbacks dictated by the pages of his semiautobiographical book, LES SALADES DE L'AMOUR, and also in his current life as Antoine actively seeks out people and places from his past and attempts to reinvent them in the present. This process involves his first love, Collette (Marie-France Pisier); his second love, Christine (Claude Jade), who eventually became his wife and birthed his son, Alfonse; and his wife's violin student, Liliane (Dani). With a mixture of frank dialogues about fidelity, love, and scholarship (Antoine works in a book printing house to which he is, occasionally, quite committed) and brilliant camerawork that combines deliberate framing--panes of glass, windows, mirrors, doorways, and gates that communicate the way Antoine distances himself from things--with smooth transitions to flashbacks, future events, and dream sequences, the viewer gets a direct line into Antoine's subconscious. In this manner of reflecting back and then inching forward chapter by chapter, LOVE ON THE RUN concludes the five-film Antoine Doinel saga in the same playfully endearing fashion that is signature of Truffaut's entire body of work.DVD FeaturesRegion 1Keep CaseAdditional Release Material: Trailers - Extra Truffaut TrailersInteractive Features: Scene AccessText/Photo Galleries: Awards Filmographies Production Credits
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Acclaimed director Luchino Visconti's (DEATH IN VENICE) powerful epic is one of the most internationally adored Italian films in history. The story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS stars the gorgeous French actor Alain Delon as Rocco, a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he and his 3 brothers set out to Milan in an attempt to make a fortune. The recipient of several prestigious awards, Visconti's drama is a highly affecting story of passion, greed, and family.DVD Features:Region 0Snap CaseWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - Italian
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A comedy with some very meaningful undertones set in the upper-class echelons of Mexico's well-to-do, SEX, SHAME AND TEARS is a mannered portrayal of two couples whose financial success has not made up for the dissatisfaction of their personal lives. Carlos and Ana have lamentably divergent tastes, his toward the New Age-y and the spiritual, while she pursues the pleasures of the flesh. These differences come to a head when Tomas comes for a visit; as Ana's former lover, he represents everything Carlos lacks for her. These circumstances are mirrored across the street in Andrea and Miguel; Andrea's husband is an ardent lover, though unfortunately not with her, and matters are further complicated when Miguel's former lover Maria comes to stay with them after a recent divorce. After a great deal of arguing, the two couples and their houseguests come to a surprising and humorous compromise in the attempt to work out their differences.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Director Jeong Jae-eun's debut feature, TAKE CARE OF MY CAT, is a slick but sensitive portrayal of girlfriends on the cusp of adulthood. Hollywood films about recent high school grads tend to focus on sex, partying, and planning for college. These Korean girls have their share of fun, but they have critical life issues to deal with, and the film presents them in a painstakingly realistic way. The fashionable Hye-joo (Lee Yo-won) is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee (Bae Doo-na) is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer work for a poet with cerebral palsy. Sullen Ji-young (Ok Ji-young) lives in poverty with her grandparents and struggles to find work. The girls, close friends in high school, find themselves drifting apart as their adult lives begin to take shape. Jeong gets flawless performances from her young cast, as her film shows how clashing values effect friendships as one grows older. Visually, she makes original use of onscreen text (and ubiquitous pagers and cell phones) to shrewdly emphasize the prevalence of technology in the girls' lives.This film was included in the 31st New Directors/New Films 2002 series presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Department of Film and Media of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxed - 1.85Audio: Dolby SRD - KoreanAdditional Release Materials: TrailersText/Photo Galleries: Stills Gallery
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Bernabe Melendez, Luz Elena Gonzalez, Eleazar Garcia, and Armando Zamarripa star in the Mexican crime drama EL CARA DE CHANGO. The story follows the traitorous exploits of an ungrateful employee who sets out to destroy his boss out of sheer envy, endangering the landowner by using his trucks to run drugs for a dangerous crime lord. Rife with action-packed gunplay, this drama of betrayal is presented in Spanish without subtitles.
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