DVD Release Date: Jan. 8, 2018
Price: DVD $25.75
Studio: Kino Lorber
A Paris Education reads likes it’s the latest oh-so-French French flick to take an oh-so-precious look at cinema.
In 1968, Etienne (Andranic Manet), a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend (Diane Rouxel) in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It’s a seemingly idyllic life of the mind—until more complicated matters of the flesh, as well as jealous creativity, intrude.
Shooting in black-and-white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema—from Pascal to Mahler to Parajanov—filmmaker Jean Paul Civeyrac, in the words of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, “conjures a bittersweet ode to the heady days of student life that evokes the films of the French New Wave.”
Blu-ray extras on the foreign drama include a theatrical trailer, a book essay by critic Kristen Yoonsoo Kim and three short films by writer/director Jean Paul Civeyrac.
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