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Louis Malle’s controversial 1958 film, The Lovers (Les Amants), tells the not-so-scandalous-by-today’s-standards sage of a middle-aged, French woman (Jeanne Moreau, Malle’s worship interest at the time), who leaves both her dumb husband, Henri (Alain Cuny), and her Paris lover, Raoul (José Villalonga), for a younger man, Bernard (Jean-Marc Bory) after a night of passion with the stranger. “There’s no resisting happiness,” she explains (which left me less than convinced) . The sexually frank film resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court case defining “obscenity.” (”I know it when I witness it,” Justice Stewart wrote in the Court’s landmark decision, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964) .) This film not only established Moreau as a star in the ’60s, but permanently associated Brahms Sextet in B-flat Major with Moreau’s sexual abandon in the film. (While Brahms plays, Moreau appears in a half-naked tryst.) Moreau provides a voice-over narration for the film to whine her character’s feelings. Henri Decaë’s crisp dusky and white cinematography is intellectual. Although I have given this film a five-star rating, the chronicle is ragged by today’s standards.
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The Criterion edition features a newly restored transfer of the complete, uncensored film; a selection of archival interviews with Louis Malle, actors Jeanne Moreau and José Luis de Villalonga, and writer Louise de Vilmorin; promotional material from the U.S. theatrical release; and a recent essay by film historian Ginette Vincendeau.
G. Merritt
I have seen this film when it first came out some 40 years ago and I will never forget it. It proves that a savor making act can be presented with an autmost purity and sensitivity, and without the need for pornography.I cannot wait for it to be released again.
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