Les Amants du Pont*Neuf on Arrow DVD

[kuronen]

I am happy to report that Les Amants du Pont*Neuf (directed by Leos Carax, 1991) has an excellent anamorphic transfer (IMHO) on Arrow DVD. English subtitles are removable. There are not a lot of extras, however.

Now all major Carax films are available on R2 DVDs. The three others: Boy meets girl, Mauvais sang, and Pola X are all available from French
sites (all anamorphic with removable English subtitles).

[Rohail]

Any DVD sites have review's of the DVD's and films?

(for more pointers) :)

[Noel M]

There are also R1 releases of Pola X, Mauvais Sang and Boy Meets Girl. I've reviewed the R1 release of Mauvais Sang (http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/index.cgi?page=Review&id=244&story=2090) for DVD Times (http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk) and it is a superb disk. I also have the Fox Lorber release of Pola X and it is also a superb anamorphic transfer with DD 5.1 sound and a commentary from Guillaume Depardieu.

I haven't seen any of the French R2 disks, but according to fnac.com, Mauvais Sang has:

The film, filmographies, trailer, making of 'images' (which could be anything, stills or short film), one out-take (which is different from the Fox Lorber outtake), a TV feature 'Big Plan' which sounds like a TV special, and press articles.

Pola X has:

The film, filmographies, music and falls(? I have no idea what this is), outtakes (which looks like the Karaoke singing session that G Depardieu mentions was cut from the film), sort feature 'San Titre' ('Untitled'), Metropolis (another television programme), and press articles.

Boy Meets Girl has:

Film, filmographies, stills, press articles and Denis Lavant's casting session.

So they all have pretty decent specs. Although the R2 of Pola X has a different selection of extras, I think that the R1 would be hard to beat, especially with 5.1 sound and a commentary, but the French DVD of Mauvais Sang might be the better release.

Good news that Arrow have released a decent version of Les Amants Du Pont Neuf. The French release is superb quality and has a long documentary on the making of the film, but has no English subtitles for either the feature or the extras.

[APPRIA40WR]

Ouch. Nobody mentioned Les Amants is truly awful.

I did like Pola X although it's nothing amazing. The Region 1 disc is reviewed here (http://www.dvdauthority.com/polax.htm).

[Mark B]

Originally posted by APPRIA40WR
Ouch. Nobody mentioned Les Amants is truly awful.


What? That film is one of my all time favoourites! From a man of your great test this is a serious lapse of good taste :D

Thought Pola X was rubbish though - just goes to show you!

[APPRIA40WR]

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