Product Details

• Actors: Sacha Bourdo, Sophie Mounicot, Antoine Dulery, Pascale Arbillot
• Directors: Arnaud Viard
• Writers: Arnaud Viard
• Format: NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: December 7, 2011
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E5KUGU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,490 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Clara Etmoi" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Sensitive yet selfish, Antoine is a 33 year old modern male, searching for the love of his life while at the odds with the scarier reaches of commitment. Then he meets Clara: she's beautiful, generous and has an air of freedom about her that causes Antoine to immediately fall for her. Their romance develops quickly, seemingly a perfect love affair between soulmates, but when life deals them unforeseen blow, their relationship faces a test it may not survive.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful, Intelligent, and Sensitive Contemporary Love Story, June 2, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clara et moi (Original French Version With English Subtitles) (DVD)

Arnaud Viard has written and directed a quintessentially French love story that simply has everything going for it. The dialogue is richly imbued with both light hearted comedic elements as well as radiant moments of verismo that make this little story one that, once seen, will be indelible in the memory of the viewer. This is a love story awash with all of the nuances of contemporary life in Paris - and in the entire world.

Antoine (Julien Boisselier) is a thirty-three year old actor, having given up his business career to pursue his dream, yet a young man without a partner. Serendipity strikes on the Metro as Antoine sees a shy woman his age Clara (Julie Gayet) and from the silence surrounding their exchanged looks it is obvious something will happen. Antoine demurely writes a note on his pad and without speaking shows it to Clara. Clara responds with a written message, and the game ends with Clara giving Antoine her telephone number! At a surprise birthday party that evening Antoine, though happy with his close friends' display of love for him, thinks only of the beautiful Clara and that he calls her. They begin a sweet and musical romance, literally singing and dancing along the Seine: they fall in love. Feeling commitment coming, the two decide to be tested for HIV (contemporary sanity is still part of the picture) and Clara discovers she is HIV positive. Antoine cannot deal with this fact and decides they cannot go on. A trip home for Antoine gives him the input from his surgeon father (Michel Aumont) and this meaningful communication between father and son reinforces the fact that despite all circumstances, he truly and deeply loves Clara. He returns to Paris to ask Clara's forgiveness, to reconcile - but life is as it is and the film's ending will touch the hearts of even the coldest of viewers.

This is an honest recounting of the magic of being in love and living in the world in which we find ourselves. The supporting cast is outstanding with every minor role played with honesty and simplicity. But it is the sheer magic on the parts of the leads that makes this film miraculous. Julie Gayet is not only incredibly beautiful, she is also am extraordinary actress, taking us with her through every subtle change in her journey. And the same can be said for Julien Boisselier - handsome in the French manner, with a face so plastic that every particle of emotion he tries so desperately to conceal is given to us, intensifying his performance and making us feel his joys and his wounds.

Arnaud Viard is a chemist with words and with silences, a conjuror who knows just how much to say and ask of his actors to give us a film that is perfect in every detail. The magnificent music score is by Benjamin Biolay with assistance from Bertrand Burgalat and Franz Schubert (`Fantasia for piano four hands'). Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 06

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Julien Boisselier et Moi, July 30, 2006

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Emma Mkrtchian - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clara et moi (Original French Version With English Subtitles) (DVD)

Julien Boisselier gives a genuine performance as Antoine, an aspiring actor who falls in love with Clara, a woman he meets in metro.Reminiscent of " Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (1964), the couple sings, dances on Parisian streets. But as their romance unfolds, at times lively, though in the background, Schubert's lovely melancholic Fantasia for piano four hands in F minor is introduced , waving in and out, giving us a taste of the biterness to come. Clara is HIV positive. The Antoine's transformation is captivating. What will happen to the young couple? Ending left open, as in real life...who knows. For classical music lovers, Schubert's fantazia four 4 hands, adds a special treat. Enjoy.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clara et moi, December 8, 2009

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