New on Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD: CLASSE TOUS RISQUES / THE BIG RISK (1960) Starring Lino Ventura & Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Product Description: After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) sneaks back to Paris with his children, despite a death sentence hanging over his head. Accompanied by appointed guardian Eric Stark (Jean-Paul Belmondo, fresh off his star turn in Breathless) and beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a throat-grabbing, soul-searching journey through the postwar Parisian underworld. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope, this rugged noir from Claude Sautet is a highlight of 1960s French cinema.

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DVD & Blu-ray: CLAUDE SAUTET AND ROMY SCHNEIDER DUO (César & Rosalie & Les choses de la vie)

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Product Description: Newly restored from the original film elements, this 2-disc double feature of classic romantic dramas, Cesar Et Rosalie and Les Choses De La Vie, directed by Palme d'Or-nominated auteur Claude Sautet, and starring legendary actress Romy Schneider Sissi trilogy) are now being released for the first time on Blu Ray.

Les Choses De La Vie: Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is involved in a terrible car accident. Fatally injured, he sees his life pass before his eyes. Only now does he realize the importance of all the details of existence, the pleasures and sorrows that together makeup life's happiness. Romy Schneider is his demanding mistress, and Lea Massari his ex-wife in this 1969 Claude Sautet feature.

Cesar Et Rosalie: Cesar and Rosalie (Romy Schneider) live a comfortable life together until David, Rosalie's old flame, returns and ignites Cesar's jealousy and Rosalie's indecision. Unexpectedly, it is Rosalie who is in the way of Cesar and David's new friendship.

Bonus features include Cesar Et Rosalie documentary Symphonie Metallique, Les Choses De La Vie featurette Serenade for Three, and booklet with new essay by author David N. Meyer.

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DVD & Blu-ray: MAX AND THE JUNKMEN (1971) Starring Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider

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Product Description: From Claude Sautet, the legendary director of Classe Tous Risques, César and Rosalie, Un Coeur en Hiver and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, comes this sophisticated policier starring screen greats Romy Schneider (The Trial, What’s New Pussycat?) and Michel Piccoli (Contempt, Belle de Jour). Lone-wolf detective Max (Piccoli) is obsessed with bringing criminals to justice at any cost. He devises a plan to lure a scrap thief (Bernard Fresson, La Prisonnière, French Connection II) and his gang into committing a bank robbery—so that he can catch them red-handed. His plan is complicated when he tries to save a German-born prostitute (Schneider) from the top cop in the bank’s district (François Périer, Le Samouraï, The Nights of Cabiria). Striking cinematography by René Mathelin (The Man from Acapulco, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) and a rousing score by Philippe Sarde (The Tenant, La Grande Bouffe) highlight this deviously compelling psychological thriller.

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DVD & Blu-ray: A HEART IN WINTER (1992) Starring Emmanuelle Beart and Daniel Auteuil

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Product Description: Daniel Auteuil (Caché), Emmanuelle Beard (Mission: Impossible) and André Fusilier (Amelie) star in this sublimely sensual, provocative and critically-acclaimed film from director Claude Sautee (Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud). Camille (Beard), a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover’s business partner Stephane (Auteuil), an aloof restorer of musical instruments. She interprets his distance as a kind of flirtation, but Stephane is more of a voyeur, preferring to watch than engage in romance. A bizarre love triangle forms in which each member slowly unveils their imperfections and insecurities. Un Coeur end Hiver (A Heart in Winter) is a sexy and enthralling film that unearths the origins of desire.

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New on Blu-ray: NELLY & MONSIEUR ARNAUD (1995) Starring Emmanuelle Beart and Michel Serrault

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Product Description: Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, starring the luminous Emmanuelle Beard (Mission: Impossible), is the profoundly moving final lm from masterful French director Claude Sautee (Un Coeur end hiver). Nelly (Beard), 25, is stuck in a loveless marriage while barely making ends meet. A friend introduces her to the wealthy and much older Arnaud (Michel Perrault, La Cage aux Follies) in order to help him write his memoirs. Thus begins a playful, tentative flirtation that is forever threatening to bloom into a romance. But instead Nelly gets involved with Arnaud’s charming editor (Jean-Hughes An glade, La Femme Nikita). Arnaud and Nelly get stuck in a silent dance of sideways glances and off-hand gestures, the secret choreography of unrequited love. Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, winner of Best Actor (Michel Perrault) and Best Director at the Cesar Awards, is a poignant, bittersweet, and beautifully performed romance that stands as an exquisite capstone to Sauté's brilliant career.

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