Sophie Marceau Movie:

		List Price: $44.99		Label: Mondo Vision Salesrank: 42605 Released: October 15, 2009
		Our Price: $35.02
		MPAA Rating: Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI'S L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love) is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel 'The Idiot', L'Amour Braque is a mad love-triangle: Léon (The Prince Of Idiots), Marie (The Virgin Whore), and Mickey (The Immoral Gangster). Zulawski's postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of Bande-Dessinée. Abundant with images that persist and last in memory, from start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where "notions of 'performance as madness' are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet." L'Amour Braque displays craftwork of originality and imagination in which "moments of brilliance happen under the watchful eye of a knowing master."

AWARDS:

NOMINATIONS:
Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film: Andrzej Zulawski

DVD CONTENTS:

MONDO VISION presents the first ever North American release of Andrzej Zulawski's 6th film L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love, 1985) in a gorgeous new transfer UNCUT & Fully Uncensored with all new English Subtitles Supervised By Director Andrzej Zulawski.

Disc 1: The Film

• Digitally Restored High Definition Transfer Mastered For Progressive Scan
• Feature Length Audio Commentary With Director Andrzej Zulawski And Writer Daniel Bird
• Exclusive New Video Interview With Sophie Marceau: 'Becoming Marie' [24:00]
• Video Interview With Director Of Photography J.F. Robin [24:00]
• Rare Archival Interviews & Behind The Scenes Footage From 1985 [16:00]
- Andrzej Zulawski Interview
- Francis Huster Interview
- Sophie Marceau Interview
- Behind The Scenes Footage

• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery

• "One Man And His Mad Dog" By Michel Chion [Cahier Du Cinéma, March 1985]
• "Andrzej Zulawski PORTRAIT": Rare Extensive Interview With ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI [STARFIX, March 1985]
• Extracts From The Original 1985 Press Kit

Andrzej Zulawski's L'Amour Braque (Limpet Love, 1985) UNCUT Premium Signature Edition [LIMITED: 2,000 Numbered Sets] by MONDO VISION Reviews:
FABULOUS !!!
2009-11-18 - A VERY GOOD DVD.
The box is beautiful and smart...
It's a great pleasur to have this item. A vrey good work.
Well done.

Masterpiece of the highest order gets a treatment of a lifetime.
2009-10-28 - Few directors if any have the audacity or imagination to make such cinema. It takes a true visionary to craft a film of this caliber, the one that defies all norms and standards accepted by the general mainstream. L'Amour Braque was written by a legendary French poet/songwriter Etienne Roda-Gil who also wrote the libretto for an opera about the French revolution, Ça Ira (`There is Hope'), for which Roger Waters of Pink Floyd wrote the music. That combined with Zulawski's fluid style of filmmaking where camera is always floating in the air makes L'Amour Braque pure "Poetry In Motion", this is not your typical lovey dovey artsy-fartsy French cinema, if anything Zulawski's films are always opposite of that. This film brings out the beauty in French language and how poetic it could be. The actors in Zulawski films never ACT FRENCH, something that Zulawski and Sophie Marceau both address in the interviews and the commentary. L'Amour Braque is what made Sophie Marceau the star that she is today even though the truly deserved credit has never been given to Zulawski, thankfully she is humble enough to admit that herself. L'Amour Braque is arguably Zulawski's most extreme film probably 1 notch above "Possession" and equal to that of "Szamanka". The opening scene of the film alone is worth the price of the DVD; it is arguably the greatest monologue in the history of cinema.

The observation by Etienne Roda-Gil pretty much sums up this film and what Zulawski's cinema is all about "Zulawski's films don't talk about love. They make love."

Just a few years back I never dreamed that any label would do justice to any Zulawski films, the only legitimate release was the now OOP DVD of POSSESSION from 2000, after that all we got was crappy bootlegs of his Polish Films by Polart and that unofficial release of "My Nights Are Beautiful Than Your Days" that has been in print forever. Then comes Mondo Vision who have gone all the way with their 3 releases so far and they have outdone themselves time after time. This is probably the most beautiful DVD package any film has ever received and one that truly deserves the tag "Limited Edition". Where companies like Anchorbay ruined the whole idea of Limited Edition by making tens of thousands of copies of their so called LEs, Mondo have been consistent so far and each of their Premium Editions is limited only to 2000 numbered copies, something extremely valuable to any collector especially for such "Cult" titles. If Criterion's OOP "Salo" DVD was selling for $900+, this one will be worth ten times that when it's Sold Out!

Mondo's 3 releases so far have been exemplary in every area including A/V presentation and L'Amour Braque is no exception. Watching this on a Sony BD Player connected to a Pioneer Plasma brings out some Amazing details and moments of film like greatness. On some close-ups you may even think you are watching a BD, can't imagine how Mondo's BDs will look like if they go that route someday. The image and the subtitles are approved by Zulawski. As far as the extras, don't miss out on Zulawski's commentary and Sophie Marceau and Archival Footage Interviews. Some may not know this but L'Amour Braque was the film where Zulawski and Sophie Marceau met, they were married for 17 years, have 1 son named Vincent, and made 4 films together.

Fans of other greats like Fellini, Lynch, Bunuel, Kubrick and Welles are all in for a treat...