Alain Resnais: A Decade in Film (Life is a Bed of Roses / Love Unto Death / Melo / I Want to Go Home) (1983-1989) (4pc)

Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer / (Resnais est un Roman) A Documentary Film on the Making of Life Is a Bed of Roses. Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer / Interview with Producer Marin Karmitz on the making of the film, and on working with director Resnais. MELO Alain Resnais, the legendary, daring, and acclaimed director of Night and Fog, Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, adds an offbeat entry into his stunning oeuvre with Melo, a loose adaptation of Henri Bernstein s celebrated 1929 play. LOVE UNTO DEATH (L AMOUR A MORT) From Alain Resnais, the award-winning French director of such cinematic masterpieces as Night and Fog and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, comes Love Unto Death, his moving follow-up to the highly successful Life Is a Bed of Roses. A FOUR FILM / FOUR DVD COLLECTION FROM THE DIRECTOR OF LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD AND HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR LIFE IS A BED OF ROSES (LA VIE EST UN ROMAN) Alain Resnais pays tribute to three influential French filmmakers Georges Melies, Marcel L Herbier and Eric Rohmer with this lighthearted film about happiness and the power of the imagination. Made during Resnais s mid-career renaissance in the 1980 s, Love Unto Death is a tightly constructed meditation on the nature of love and death. In French with optional English subtitles. Azema won the Cesar (France s Academy Award) as Best Actress. 1984/France/92 min/Color (2.35:1 Aspect Ratio) 16x9 Enhanced. Starring VITTORIO GASSMAN, RUGGERI RAIMONDI, GERALDINE CHAPLIN, FANNY ARDANT, SABINE AZEMA and PIERRE ARDITI. Starring GERARD DEPARDIEU, ADOLPH GREEN, LINDA LAVIN, LAURA BENSON, GERALDINE CHAPLIN and LUDIVINE SAGNIER. Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer / Interview with Producer Marin Karmitz on the making of the film, and on working with director Resnais. Life Is a Bed of Roses is divided into three parallel narratives. 1983/France/110 min/Color (1.66:1 Aspect Ratio) 16x9 Enhanced. In French with optional English subtitles. 1989/France/101 min/Color (1.66:1 Aspect Ratio) 16x9 Enhanced. Starring SABINE AZEMA, FANNY ARDANT, PIERRE ARDITI, ANDRE DUSSOLLIER and JEAN DASTE. I WANT TO GO HOME (JE VEUX RENTRER A LA MAISON) Alain Resnais, the legendary French director of many groundbreaking films (including Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad), collaborates with American writer / cartoonist Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge) for this raucous satire of French and American culture. 1986/France/112 min/Color/(1.66:1 Aspect Ratio) 16x9 Enhanced. In English and French with optional English subtitles. In French with optional English subtitles. Resnais s first solo credit for screenplay in almost 40 years, Melo tells the story of Marcel (Andre Dussollier) and Pierre (Pierre Arditi), two lifelong friends who are also concert violinists. Starring SABINE AZEMA, FANNY ARDANT, PIERRE ARDITI, ANDRE DUSSOLLIER, JACQUES DACQMINE and CATHERINE ARDITI. Special Features: Original Theatrical Traile / Interview with Producer Marin Karmitz on the making of the film, and on working with director Resnais.