Product Details

• Actors: Sophie Marceau, Francis Huster, Tcheky Karyo, Christiane Jean, Michel Albertini
• Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Mondo Vision
• DVD Release Date: October 15, 2009
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LS42LM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,624 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "L'Amour Braque (Premium Limited Signature Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

In "L'Amour Braque", Étienne Roda-Gil has known how to find words, and Andrzej Zulawski the images, which revive in us a strange resonance which has the sweetness of a dream and the familiarity of a memory. And, whatever the story is that these words and images tell, the important thing is this resonance, this healthy tremor that simply tells us that a world without emotions is a world without meaning. --Michèle Halberstadt (1985)

Product Description

ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love) is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel 'The Idiot', L'Amour Braque is a mad love-triangle: Léon (The Prince Of Idiots), Marie (The Virgin Whore), and Mickey (The Immoral Gangster). Zulawski's postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of Bande-Dessinée. Abundant with images that persist and last in memory, from start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where "notions of 'performance as madness' are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet." L'Amour Braque displays craftwork of originality and imagination in which "moments of brilliance happen under the watchful eye of a knowing master."

AWARDS:

NOMINATIONS:
Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film: Andrzej Zulawski

DVD CONTENTS:

MONDO VISION presents the first ever North American release of Andrzej Zulawski's 6th film L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love, 1985) in a gorgeous new transfer UNCUT & Fully Uncensored with all new English Subtitles Supervised By Director Andrzej Zulawski.

Disc 1: The Film

• Digitally Restored High Definition Transfer Mastered For Progressive Scan
• Feature Length Audio Commentary With Director Andrzej Zulawski And Writer Daniel Bird
• Exclusive New Video Interview With Sophie Marceau: 'Becoming Marie' [24:00]
• Video Interview With Director Of Photography J.F. Robin [24:00]
• Rare Archival Interviews & Behind The Scenes Footage From 1985 [16:00]
- Andrzej Zulawski Interview
- Francis Huster Interview
- Sophie Marceau Interview
- Behind The Scenes Footage

• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery

Disc 2: Soundtrack CD [Digitally Remastered]

Exclusive 64pg Booklet including a newly written essay by Daniel Bird + Rare and Insightful Essays & Interviews [retranslated and published for the first time ever in English]

• "One Man And His Mad Dog" By Michel Chion [Cahier Du Cinéma, March 1985]
• "Andrzej Zulawski PORTRAIT": Rare Extensive Interview With ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI [STARFIX, March 1985]
• Extracts From The Original 1985 Press Kit

[5x7] Color Reproduction Of The Original French Poster
Certificate of Authenticity W/ Unique Serial # [Only 2000 Individually Numbered Sets Produced]
Packaging: Specially designed Red Velvet Case!

Note Regarding English Subtitles: (Optional) Available in White & Yellow
The dialogue of L'Amour Braque presents a number of challenges for the translator. Roda-Gil s dialogue abounds with rhymes and puns, not to mention a plethora of (mainly French) cultural and political references, often specific to the 1980s. Director Andrzej Zulawski prepared the subtitles for this DVD release in collaboration with Daniel Bird. It was decided quickly that a technically precise translation of the original French into English would lose the playful, anarchistic character of Roda-Gil's dialogue. Here, Zulawski has opted for the title Limpet Love. The character of 'Marie' has been changed to 'Mary', so as to retain the Christian aspect of the character's name. For rhymes in French, equivalents in English have been sought. Therefore, a looser approach has been adopted, which strives to offer something of the flavor of the original.

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece of the highest order gets a treatment of a lifetime., October 27, 2009

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via-verone (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: L'Amour Braque (Premium Limited Signature Edition) (DVD)

Few directors if any have the audacity or imagination to make such cinema. It takes a true visionary to craft a film of this caliber, the one that defies all norms and standards accepted by the general mainstream. L'Amour Braque was written by a legendary French poet/songwriter Etienne Roda-Gil who also wrote the libretto for an opera about the French revolution, Ça Ira (`There is Hope'), for which Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote the music. That combined with Zulawski's fluid style of filmmaking where camera is always floating in the air makes L'Amour Braque pure "Poetry In Motion", this is not your typical lovey dovey artsy-fartsy French cinema, if anything Zulawski's films are always opposite of that. This film brings out the beauty in French language and how poetic it could be. The actors in Zulawski films never ACT FRENCH, something that Zulawski and Sophie Marceau both address in the interviews and the commentary. L'Amour Braque is what made Sophie Marceau the star that she is today even though the truly deserved credit has never been given to Zulawski, thankfully she is humble enough to admit that herself. L'Amour Braque is arguably Zulawski's most extreme film probably 1 notch above "Possession" and equal to that of "Szamanka". The opening scene of the film alone is worth the price of the DVD; it is arguably the greatest monologue in the history of cinema.

The observation by Etienne Roda-Gil pretty much sums up this film and what Zulawski's cinema is all about "Zulawski's films don't talk about love. They make love."

Just a few years back I never dreamed that any label would do justice to any Zulawski films, the only legitimate release was the now OOP DVD of POSSESSION from 2000, after that all we got was crappy bootlegs of his Polish Films by Polart and that unofficial release of "My Nights Are Beautiful Than Your Days" that has been in print forever. Then comes Mondo Vision who have gone all the way with their 3 releases so far and they have outdone themselves time after time. This is probably the most beautiful DVD package any film has ever received and one that truly deserves the tag "Limited Edition". Where companies like Anchorbay ruined the whole idea of Limited Edition by making tens of thousands of copies of their so called LEs, Mondo have been consistent so far and each of their Premium Editions is limited only to 2000 numbered copies, something extremely valuable to any collector especially for such "Cult" titles. If Criterion's OOP "Salo" DVD was selling for $900+, this one will be worth ten times that when it's Sold Out!

Mondo's 3 releases so far have been exemplary in every area including A/V presentation and L'Amour Braque is no exception. Watching this on a Sony BD Player connected to a Pioneer Plasma brings out some Amazing details and moments of film like greatness. On some close-ups you may even think you are watching a BD, can't imagine how Mondo's BDs will look like if they go that route someday. The image and the subtitles are approved by Zulawski. As far as the extras, don't miss out on Zulawski's commentary and Sophie Marceau and Archival Footage Interviews. Some may not know this but L'Amour Braque was the film where Zulawski and Sophie Marceau met, they were married for 17 years, have 1 son named Vincent, and made 4 films together.

Fans of other greats like Fellini, Lynch, Bunuel, Kubrick and Welles are all in for a treat...

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars how could I have possibly missed this until now?, January 8, 2010

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This review is from: Andrzej Zulawski's L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love, 1985) UNCUT Special Edition [Digipak] by MONDO VISION (DVD)

It is undeniably one of the most thoughtful, passionate, relevant and seductive films to lure us into the tragically human Real, without pedantics but with masterful pedagogy... cinema poetry, and easily one of the most significant moments in 20th century art (in any medium) depicting the lucid hyper-giddyness of what's left of our humanity as it accepts the arc of its intergenerational inheritence, ie seeking eros/thanatos at all costs, and therefore masters the reins of a world it subconsciously but intentionally drives into complete collapse.

Perfectly executed, passionately felt... as always with this director, a wonder of holistic rebellion, the bleak explosive pseudo-power of the individual, a consequence of the redefinition of 'signifiers' under the cosmological constant of love, a temporary beauty of permanent horror, giving way to the humanistic recalculation of Truth, which leaves everything dead.

Strangely does justice to Dostoevsky on the deepest level.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FABULOUS !!!, November 18, 2009

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This review is from: L'Amour Braque (Premium Limited Signature Edition) (DVD)

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