PHILIPPE GARREL 2 DVD SET [LA NAISSANCE DE L'AMOUR / SAUVAGE INNOCENCE]

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Stock Status: Out of Print

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Genre: Art House

Country: France

Year: 1993 / 2001

LA NAISSANCE DE L'AMOUR (THE BIRTH OF LOVE) - 1993

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul (Lou Castel) is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika (Johanna ter Steege), a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

DVD FEATURES

Widescreen Version

French audio

Optional English subtitles

SAUVAGE INNOCENCE (WILD INNOCENCE) - 2001

A man creating a cautionary tale about drug abuse finds himself and his lover drawn into the deadly web of heroin in this drama. Francois Mauge (Mehdi Behaj Kacem) is a filmmaker who is still dealing with the death of his wife, a well-known model and actress who succumbed to drugs. Determined to make a statement about his loss through his work, Francois decides to direct a film about a woman struggling with addiction called "Wild Innocence," and casts an attractive young actress named Lucie (Julia Faure) in the leading role.

Francois soon falls for Lucie and they become lovers, but Francois loses financing for his project, and in order to continue filming, he approaches a less-than-scrupulous financier, Chas (Michel Subor), who was friends with Francois' late wife. Chas offers to back the movie, but under one condition — Francois has to help him smuggle a large quantity of heroin into France. As if this ugly irony were not enough, Lucie develops a curiosity about drugs while researching her role, and tries snorting heroin; before long, she's devolved into a full-blown addict.

Philippe Garrel's film was inspired in part by his romance with Nico, the noted model, musician, and actress who herself developed a very serious drug habit during the course of their relationship.

DVD FEATURES

Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen Version

French audio

Optional English subtitles

Behind the Scenes

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PHILIPPE GARREL 2 DVD SET [LA NAISSANCE DE L'AMOUR / SAUVAGE INNOCENCE]

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Product 274 of 474 in category Art House

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PHILIPPE GARREL 2 DVD SET [LA NAISSANCE DE L'AMOUR / SAUVAGE INNOCENCE][5320]Stock Status: Out of Print

$0.00

PHILIPPE GARREL 2 DVD SET [LA NAISSANCE DE L'AMOUR / SAUVAGE INNOCENCE]

[5320]

Stock Status: Out of Print