Kino Classics has officially announced and detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of of director Maurice Pialat's
We Won't Grow Old Together a.k.a.
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972), starring Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, and Christine Fabréga. The release is set to arrive on the U.S. market on August 12th.
In 1972, the film won Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival (Jean Yanne).
Following the recent theatrical premiere release by The Film Desk, which screened in cities across the U.S., including week runs in New York at BAM and Lincoln Center, this is the first time that WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER has appeared on home video in the U.S.
The release will also include a set of enlightening special features, including a video appreciation by Alex Ross Perry (director of
The Color Wheel and
Listen Up Philip), an interview with actress Marlène Jobert, a booklet essay by film critic Nick Pinkerton, and the theatrical trailer.
Official synopsis: Maurice Pialat's WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER is the "ultimate bad break-up movie" (J. Hoberman), a combustible portrait of a couple whose love tears them apart.
Pialat's (À nos amours) second feature was a hit in France upon its release in 1972, won actor Jean Yanne Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, screened at the New York Film Festival, and is here receiving its U.S. home video premiere. Heavily autobiographical, "it tells the story of endless breakups and makeups of a highly unstable yet apparently indissoluble couple... depicting the protracted end of a five year affair" (Dave Kehr). Jean (Jean Yanne, Weekend), a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover Catherine (Marlène Jobert, Masculin Féminin) engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
This relentless masterpiece is "hard to watch but even harder to look away" (Time Out NY), an end-of-love story for the ages.
Special Features:
- A video appreciation by Alex Ross Perry,
director of The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip
- Interview with actress Marlène Jobert
- Booklet essay by film critic Nick Pinkerton
- Theatrical trailer