Alain Resnais Double Feature
“Love Unto Death” / &#34;Life Is a Bed of Roses&#34;  is a double feature Blu-ray. Both films are directed by Alain Resnais. &#34;Love Unto Death&#34; is about a man, Simon (Pierre Arditi), who collapses and is pronounced dead by a doctor. Later, however, he awakens and greets his grieving wife, Elizabeth (Sabine Azema). Long discussions ensue between them about the meanings of life, death, and love. They decide to avoid family and friends and set out for a vacation, but then change their minds. They seek out two friends who are both clerics with their own religious views on the meaning of life.<br /> <br />The film gets increasingly ponderous and gloomy. Stylistically, Resnais divides it into movements, ending each with a dark background followed by drifting particles and a chamber music interlude. This choice slows the pace and makes the metaphysical journey puzzling, if interesting visually. Overall, the movie seems more suitable as a subject for academic discussion than as an engaging cinematic experience.<br /><br /> “Life Is a Bed of Roses&#34; uses a three-part structure to combine comedy, fantasy, and music. Resnais uses a non-linear approach to storytelling, switching back and forth among the three separate segments. The first takes place in 1914. Michel Forbek (Ruggero Raymond) is a wealthy, eccentric count who designs a sort of pleasure palace in which those who visit drink a potion and revert to their infantile state. To create a Utopian atmosphere, the guests are exposed only to positive sensations. Beautiful music fills the air and blindfolds keep out unpleasant sights as the guests lie peacefully in giant cribs.<br /><br />The second segment takes place 60 years later. The count’s gothic castle has been converted into an experimental school run by idealistic educator Nathalie Holberg (Veronique Silver), who hosts a seminar on education of the imaginative. During the conference, while the adults theorize and engage in romantic liaisons, we come to the third segment: a number of children at the school fantasize a tale about a heroic figure, complete with dragons and damsels in distress.<br /><br />The underlying theme that human imagination is limitless, offering untold possibilities, some whimsical, some serious, some merely distractiong, is interesting, the structure often leaves the viewer grasping to understand how the three parts relate.<br /><br /> Bonus Blu-ray features include feature-length critical audio commentary and the theatrical trailer for each film. The films are in French, with English subtitles.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Love Unto Death: Resnais' meditation on the power of love and death. Simon and Elisabeth are deeply in love, but the sudden death and miraculous revival of Simon throws their entire life into turmoil. Life Is a Bed of Roses: In this lighthearted celebration of the power of imagination, Alain Resnais pays tribute to three influential French filmmakers Georges Melies, Marcel L. Herbier and Eric Rohmer.Bonus Content:.