Une femme douce/ Robert Bresson 2K Restored

[Machine Translation] A beautiful masterpiece by master filmmaker Robert Bresson. This is the first color film by Robert Bresson, a master filmmaker who has created challenging and innovative masterpieces such as "Suri" ('59) and "Rarjan" ('83), and continues to attract many filmmakers and audiences. Based on Dostoevsky's novel, the film depicts the suffering of love and the difficulty of mutual understanding with neat imagery and direction. The young wife of the protagonist is played by Dominique Sanda, a leading French actor who made his screen debut with this film and later appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Assassin's Forest" ('70) and other films. He brilliantly portrays the protagonist who struggles with love. --A man who runs a pawnshop in Paris spends his days obsessed with money. One day, a young woman comes in and offers him her old camera. The third time they meet, she opens her mouth for the first time, and the man asks her to marry him. The two begin their married life, but suddenly the wife commits suicide by jumping out of the window. What was the cause? The man recalls their life together in front of his wife's dead body. Commentary booklet enclosed.

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巨匠ロベール・ブレッソンの美しき傑作。『スリ』 (59)『ラルジャン』 (83)など挑戦的で革新的な傑作を生み出し、今なお多くの映画作家や観客を魅了する巨匠ロベール・ブレッソンの初カラー作品。文豪ドストエフスキーの原作を基に、愛の受難と相互理解の困難さを端正な映像と演出で描き出してゆく。主人公の若き妻を演じるのは、本作でスクリーンデビューを飾り、その後ベルナルド・ベルトルッチ監督『暗殺の森』 (70)などに出演したフランスを代表する名優ドミニク・サンダ。愛に苦悩する主人公を見事に体現する。――パリで質屋を営む男は、金銭に執着をもって日々を過ごしている。ある日、客として若い女がやってきて、男に古いカメラを差し出す。男は素晴らしいカメラだと話かけるも、女は不愛想に店から立ち去ってしまう。3度目の出会いで彼女ははじめて口をひらき、男は彼女に求婚した。二人は結婚生活を始めていくのだが、突然、妻は窓から飛び降りて自殺をしてしまう。何が原因だったのか。男は妻の死体の前で二人の生活を回想していく。解説ブックレット封入。