Un Coeur en Hiver [Blu-ray]

Director: Claude Sautet Claude Sautet

Overview

Stephane and Maxime are partners in an upscale violin restoration business, but their relationship becomes complicated when Maxime's girlfriend, a concert violinist, realizes she loves Stephane. Haunting sonatas by the composer Ravel heighten the emotionality in this elegant French film about the strange ways of the human heart.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2019
UPC:	0738329239916
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Classics
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	26,752

Special Features

Audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Daniel Auteuil	Stephane
André Dussollier	Maxime
Elizabeth Bourgine	Helene
Brigitte Catillon	Regine
Maurice Garrel	Lachaume
Myriam Boyer	Madame Amet
Emmanuelle Béart	Camille
Jean-Claude Bouillaud	Actor
Jean-Luc Bideau	Ostende
Jeffrey Grice	Actor
Luben Yordanoff	Actor
François Domange	Actor
Van Doude	Actor
Jacques Villa	Actor
Benoît Bellal	Actor
Pierre Cheremetieff	Actor
Jean-Marie Fonbonne	Actor
János Oguz	Actor
Stanislas Carré de Malberg	Brice
Dominique De Williencourt	Christophe
Nanou Garcia	Actor
Galaxie Barbouth	Actor
Séverine Debels	Actor
Anne Macina	Actor
Xavier Rothmann	Actor
Michele Hermet	Young Woman
Philippe Sarde	Composer
Maurice Ravel	Composer

Technical Credits

Jacques Fieschi

Jérôme Tonnerre

Yves Ulmann

Claude Sautet	Director
Philippe Carcassonne	Producer
Jean-Louis Livi	Producer
Pierre Lenoir	Sound/Sound Designer,Sound Effects
Jean-Paul Loublier	Sound Mixer,Sound Effects
Jacques Fieschi	Screenwriter
Jérôme Tonnerre	Screenwriter
Raphaël Berdugo	Producer
Marie-Thérèse Boiché	Sound Effects
Denis Carquin	Sound Effects
Jérôme Lévy	Sound Effects
Yves Ulmann	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

A gorgeously subtle examination of an unusual love triangle, Un coeur en hiver is a triumph for all involved. The film follows of a pair of business partners (André Dussolier and Daniel Auteuil), who run an exclusive stringed-instrument workshop, and the beautiful and talented violinist (Emmanuelle Béart) who comes between them. At first, it seems like standard material, but Claude Sautet's film is unique in that the characters' inevitable ruin is brought on not by an illicit affair but by the contemplation of an illicit affair. Thus the film becomes a moving, if occasionally frustrating, portrait of emotional frigidity. Sautet's subdued and perfectly paced direction (for which he won a French César award) and the script, by Yves Ulmann, Jacques Fiéschi, and Jerome Tonnèrre from a short story by Mikhail Lermontov, frame three superlative performances. Dussollier, who also picked up a César, hits all the right notes as the gregarious Maxime, and Auteuil is consistently fascinating, subtly hinting at hidden depths beneath Stephane's maddeningly enigmatic mug. Béart's Camille, though, is at the heart of the film, and her performance is both technically flawless (she studied the violin for more than a year before filming) and emotionally harrowing. The film also features a stunning Ravel soundtrack, performed by violinist Jean-Jacques Kantorow.