| | |  | FRANCE | Home » » The Lovers (The Criterion Collection) | | | | | | | Description: | | Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers (Les amants), he made her a star once and for all. A deeply felt and luxuriously filmed fairy tale for grown-ups, perched on the edge between classical and New Wave cinemas, The Lovers presents Moreau as a restless bourgeois wife whose eye wanders from both her husband and her lover to an attractive passing stranger (Jean-Marc Bory). Thanks to its frank sexuality, The Lovers caused quite a stir, being censored and attacked for obscenity around the world. If today its shock has worn off, its glistening sensuality and seductive storytelling haven't aged a day | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Patricia Garcin, Michéle Girardon | | Format:
| Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Language:
| French | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Criterion Collection | | Run Time:
| 90 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| May 13, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 remarkable film makingMay 03, 2000
By amos linenberg
I have seen this film when it first came out some 40 years ago and I will never forget it. It proves that a love 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.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
This film has stayed in my mind for 35 years.Jul 26, 1999
By David
I saw this film along with a Yiddish stage show in a theatre on south beach in Miami many years ago. It was difficult at the time, to really enjoy the movie since it was inappropriate for that particular audience as they were laughing and giggling at the very serious and sensitive scenes due to their embarrassment.I loved the movie and think about it every time I hear strains of Brahms Double Concerto, (repeated beautifully in many love scenes)"The Lovers" is a French tale of adultery without today's nudity and language - but oh so very sexy! I would recommend this movie for anyone who is a fan of Louis Malle. His direction of Jeanne Moreau is superb. I am eagerly awaiting the re-issue of this film so that I may own it and enjoy watching it again and again.
14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 It's the musicAug 20, 2004
By Santiago Lafcadio
It's the Brahms first sextet, Opus 18, that's used in this movie, not his Double Concerto, as reported by an earlier reviewer. This exquisite Brahms piece provides one of the greatest soundtracks in the history of film. (Another is the Miles Davis original soundtrack for an earlier Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.)
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Towering film of the New Wave!Jul 24, 2005
By Hiram Gomez Pardo
To talk about the meaning and trascendence of The lovers means to make reference to one of the most remakable, irreverent and daring films in the Fifties decade. If you look behind in the story of the cinema, you will find interesting proposals such as The devil in the flesh, Ectasy (with Hedy Lamarr), Pandora Box, The blue angel, Gilda, Baby Doll for instance, but never before a film loaded with such abundance of dark poetry,increasing tension and a great doses of references about the double moral and social hypocrisy.
After the huge sucess in the whole world with Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle decided to make an unique film; a true fullfillment in every sense of the meaning.
Louis de Villalonga and Jeanne Moreau are specially splendid in this unmatched film that deserves all your special attention.
A true landmark in the story of the cinema.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 A fine early release by Louis MalleJun 11, 2008
By Ted
"Ted"
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
The Lovers known in French as Les Amants is Louis Malle's second feature film after Elevator to the Gallows. It also was the first of his films to generate controversey. It was censored upon its release in the US and other countries but A theater owner in Ohio who screened this film was charged with screening an obscene film and in a case that made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, the charges overturned. I think it would get a hard PG-13 or a light R with today's standards.
The film is about a married woman who having an affair and on her way home from a liason with her lover her car breaks down. A man then pulls over and he drives her to a garage. She then begins a relationship with him too.
This film is certainly not obscene as the censors maintained 50 years ago. Some scenes might be considered indecent by some though. I thought it was an interesting story but didn't care too much for the adultery theme.
The special features on the DVD are a slideshow of material for the US release and archival interviews with Louis Malle, writer, Louise de Vilmorin, actress, Jeanne Moreau, and actor José Luis de Villalonga.
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