French Without Tears - BLU-RAY

Whether embedded on the front lines or commanding the studio, superstar broadcast journalist France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux) always had life and image under firm control. Or she did, until a distracted, no-harm collision with a moped courier (Jawad Zemmar) gets her questioning career and marriage... and on a path to an affair she'll regret. Bruno Dumont's deft news media poke also stars Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Juliane Köhler. 133 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack French Subtitles English; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles.

William Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, Klein found a subject that combined his interest in sport and social criticism, and much the same combination can be seen at work, in a very different cultural context, in The French. Klein was the first person to be granted full, exclusive access to the tournament in it's 90-year history, and using that doorway into locker rooms, TV studios, and players' boxes, he shot the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the 1981 French Open-a crucial moment in a crucial year in the history of a game, and it's iconic players Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Chris Evert, Yannick Noah, and Ivan Lendl. With Klein's customary eagle eye and whirlwind energy, The French captures the noisy bedlam that accompanies any major sporting event, while also revealing a level of candor from his subjects that is impossible to imagine in today's secretive media-trained world.

La Chinoise is a pop-art masterpiece by Jean-Luc Godard that both channels and parodies the revolutionary energies of Paris in 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Véronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution.