You most likely know the long-lasting “A Man and a Girl” essential theme written by Francis Lai, however when was the final time you truly noticed the film? Claude Lelouch‘s 1966 Cannes Palme d’Or (and double) Oscar winner is led by French cinema icons Anouk Aimée (who died final 12 months and surprisingly was not included within the Oscars’ 2025 In Memoriam section) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (who died in 2022). The basic romance is now coming again to theaters, in a brand new restoration, courtesy of Rialto Photos this April. IndieWire shares the unique trailer for the re-release beneath.
As IndieWire beforehand wrote in our rating of all Cannes Palme d’Or winners: “From director Claude Lelouch comes this 1966 basic — a young, visually stirring movie of rejuvenating love between a widow and a widower: a race-car driver (Jean-Louis Trinignant) and a film script lady (Anouk Aimee) share a candid romance whereas balancing the calls for of profession and parenthood. It’s a touching, reasonable have a look at a burgeoning grownup romance, with every participant encumbered by a previous tragedy, inflicting them to proceed delicately. The movie can be well-known for Francis Lai’s attractive, swooning rating. Winner of Oscars for Greatest International Language Movie and Greatest Authentic Screenplay, it’s fairly presumably one of many sweetest love tales ever captured on display.”
Within the movie, Trintignant performs a widower and racecar driver who’s now single after his spouse’s suicide. In the meantime, Aimée’s character is herself a widow, whose husband was a stuntman who died in an accident throughout a manufacturing. They meet at their kids’s boarding faculty in Deauville and kind a nervous friendship that ultimately turns into romance, all resulting in an iconic finale wherein Claude Lelouch’s digicam (he did the cinematography himself) swirls across the lovers.
The movie has been the topic of many homages in cinema and tv for the previous half century. Not too long ago, Chanel’s black-and-white fall/winter 2024/205 advert that includes Penélope Cruz and Brad Pitt is a direct homage to “A Man and a Girl.”
The brand new restoration of “A Man and a Girl” opens April 4 at New York’s Movie Discussion board and April 18 in Los Angeles on the Laemmle Royal. Lelouch will seem in particular person for Q&As in New York.