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Jean-Luc Godard.

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Collector's ed.

Languages

In French, with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Performers

Oh, woe is me = Hélas pour moi: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley, Jean-Louis Loca.

Publication Information

Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Entertainment, c2008.

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated, except Passion: MPAA rating: R.

Summary

Passion: Uninspired and overbudget, a bored Polish film director who is shooting a tedious movie in France, begins simultaneous love affairs with two very different women--Hanna, the owner of the hotel where his film crew stays, and Isabelle, a factory worker fired by Hanna's husband.

First name, Carmen = Prénom Carmen: A satirical black comedy that winks at Mérimée's classic, a famous director pretends to be ill in a mental institution but is actually trying to avoid making films. He is enlisted by his niece Carmen who wants his empty apartment as a hideaway for a bank robbery she and her friends are about to commit.

Detective: Godard's pastiche of genres from romance and gangster films to slapstick, melodrama, crime stories and film noir incorporates several stories set in one Parisian hotel, featuring a hotel detective and assistant, a fight promoter having an affair, and a Mafia chieftain.

Oh, woe is me = Hélas pour moi: A surrealistic modern take on the Greek myth where Zeus descends to earth to seduce a woman by disguising himself as her husband. Simon, the husband of Rachel, is targeted by a cruel God determined to experience real love.

Notes

Collective title from disc label.

Passion originally released as a motion picture in 1982; First name: Carmen (Prénom Carmen) originally released as a motion picture in 1983; Detective originally released as a motion picture in 1985; Oh, woe is me (Hélas pour moi) originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

Special feature: Disc 3: Bonus featurette: Jean-Luc Godard: a riddle wrapped in an enigma.

Contents

  • Passion / First name, Carmen = Prénom Carmen / Detective / Oh, woe is me = Hélas pour moi

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