Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.0

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman April 16, 2026

Blu-ray sets offering the complete filmographies of any given creator can tend to be pretty huge, even overwhelming, affairs, like Ingmar Bergman's Cinema and/or The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. That Varda set may be particularly a propos when discussing this (much smaller) set, since both Varda and Jacques Rozier were both prominent members of the French New Wave, even if neither arguably rose to the global fame heights of, say, Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut. If Varda either fairly or unfairly got some reflected glow from her long marriage to Jacques Demy, one way or the other even she, as arguably underappreciated as she's been, was probably better known internationally than Rozier, who has continued to kind of be the "bastard stepchild" of the movement, consigned by fate and (sorry) critical assessments to what is perceived as a lower echelon, even if that perception is manifestly undeserved. Rozier is a fascinating figure one way or the other, as his approach toward Nouvelle Vague was decidedly different than his contemporaries (notably Varda, in fact), and despite a decades long career, he only ended up making five feature films, all of which Radiance has aggregated for this new collection.

For reviews of the film in this set, please click on the following links:

Adieu Philippine Blu-ray review

Near Orouët Blu-ray review

The Castaways of Turtle Island Blu-ray review

Maine-Ocean Express Blu-ray review

Fifi Martingale Blu-ray review

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplements on each disc are detailed in the above linked reviews. Radiance sent check discs for purposes of these reviews, but their website mentions their typical assortment of packaging accoutrements.

Time to Play: Films by Jacques Rozier Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is one "complete" filmography that (probably) won't require untold time to get through it all. All five of these films are charming in their own ways and certainly deserve wider audiences. Technical merits are generally solid and the on disc supplements very appealing. Recommended.