Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300146327
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300146324
Label: Columbia Tristar Hom
Manufacturer: Columbia Tristar Hom
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Tristar Hom
Release Date: 1993-02-10
Running Time: 150
Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom
Theatrical Release Date: 1975-03-21

Customer Rating:
Summary: Toute une Vie
Comment: This is an excellent product.
I am glad to be able to acquire movies in French without having to go trough Amazon.Fr. It really helps decrease the cost. Thank you.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Director's cut sucks!
Comment: I was thrilled when this movie was finally released on DVD. I had taped it off cable years ago, but was never able to buy it on video tape. WHAT A BUMMER...this is a "directors cut". It sucks compared to the original theater version. All of the extra scenes should have remained on the cutting room floor, and the subtitles, although more faithful to the actual French dialog, are much less enjoyable and sometimes make little sense in English.
I'd love to have the original version on DVD. It was a truly great film.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: movie premise is 5 stars but the restored version's end is not!
Comment: this has been my favorite movie of all time for over 30 years since it came out in theatres. for years, some of the artsy movie houses still showed it in the early 80's (remember the nuart in west l.a?) my husband recently bought the restored version for me as a surprise. we finally saw it the other night for the first time. disappointed doesn't express the emotion i had when i saw the alternate ending they put on this version. bleak, dark and morbid science fiction...why put this spin in a movie that is all about romance and destiny? i just don't get it...WHERE CAN I FIND AN ORIGINAL VERSION OF THIS MOVIE? by the way, if you love the premise of the movie like i do, check out the movie sliding doors with gwyneth paltrow.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: DON'T BUY THIS 'RESTORED' VERSION!!!
Comment: This has been one of my favorite movies for 25 years, or since I saw it in the late 70's in Los Angeles. I had an old copy on VHS with lousy sound, so I was excited to get this DVD release. Towards the end I was all choked up and ready for the final scene when -- YUCKITY YUK YUK YUK! Somebody slipped a new ending in! It went on and on and on (10, 15 minutes?) and totally destroyed the effect of the movie -- completely ruined the superb ending to one of my all time favorite romances. And I was showing the movie to my wife at the time--who was so touched because she didn't even think I liked romances. Even she was perplexed by this lengthy alteration. I feel robbed of a rich memory, cheated out of one of the most wonderful endings in all film history. It's as if somebody had redone the famous ending of Casa Blanca, and just when Humprey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were halfway through their tear-jerker parting lines, somebody inserted 10 minutes of 'lost footage' about Rick's cafe under new ownership after the fascists have gone, or some such nonsense. I think you see my point. One reviewer expressed surprise that Claude Lelouch had 'chosen to restore' the ending. I would rather believe that somebody else did the editing, and not Lelouch. That way I wouldn't have to write anything nasty about a world-famous movie director. Which I won't, anyway, because I asked my wife to preview what I had written, and she suggested I delete the nasty comments -- which I did, so they're not here.

Let me conclude by saying that I haven't been so unhappy with a DVD edition since I settled down to watch a music video -- Black Sabbath's The Last Supper. After 15, 20 or so many odd years, Ozzie Osbourne got back with the survivors of the old Black Sabbath band to do a farewell, live performance of their old songs from the early 70s. I had looked forward to something like this for years. There I was, settling into the band's all-time classic song, Iron Man. I was just getting into the opening rifts when -- horrors! -- somebody decided to insert a bunch of Ozzie's home movies (or something like that)--and the song is still playing in the background, of course; but we also hear and see Ozzie and his cronies yakking away. Talk about destroying art! It's like someone painting a moustache on the Mon Lisa! (Okay, lousy comparison: Ozzie vs. Da Vinci, but you get the drift.) I would prefer to believe that somebody other than Ozzie Osbourne did the final editing of the Iron Man song. I wrote a nasty review of the Black Sabbath DVD and wanted to have a few choice words with the Sony editors or whoever was responsible for the final shelf version of the Last Supper. Shame, shame, on you!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: My all time favourite
Comment: I first saw this film in London in the '70s and loved it then. The DVD release has preserved it, although I would agree about the ending. The additional scenes were unnecessary. As they said in Mozart ... "too many notes".

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