Release Date: March 31, 2026
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Criterion: $31.96
OrbitDVD: $25.99
Amazon- $27.99
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writers: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange, Antoine Sire
Claude Lelouch’s Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars’ chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai’s unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.
Prices and Links:
Criterion: $31.96
OrbitDVD: $25.99
Amazon- $27.99
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writers: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Starring: Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh, Valérie Lagrange, Antoine Sire
- France
- 1966
- 103 minutes
- Color/Black and White
- 1.66:1
- French
Claude Lelouch’s Academy Award–winning international sensation is a paragon of swooning cinematic romanticism and 1960s chic. Against the rain-swept backdrop of the Normandy coast, two widowed single parents—race-car driver Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and film-script supervisor Anne (Anouk Aimée)—find themselves falling for each other. But are they ready to move on from the shadows of their former lovers? Reveling in its stars’ chemistry and unfolding as a sublime swirl of shifting film stocks, whirling camera work, and time- and space-collapsing editing—all set to Francis Lai’s unforgettable score—A Man and a Woman endures as one of the most intoxicating love stories ever told.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Claude Lelouch, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with Lelouch
- Making-of documentary shot on location
- Archival footage of Lelouch at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
- C’était un rendez-vous (1976), a short film by Lelouch, with a new introduction by the director
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Carrie Rickey
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