Éric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife (1981) (Metrograph Pictures)

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Metrograph Pictures (via Kino distribution) will be releasing Éric Rohmers The Aviator's Wife (La Femme de l'aviateur) (1981) on Blu-ray on November 14th. I watched this for the first time earlier this year, and loved everything about it. Metrograph also has the rights to Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), and 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), so I hope those are coming in the future as well.

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Extras:

• Audio commentary by film historian Adrian Martin
• Trailer

The inaugural film of Eric Rohmer’s sparkling “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork as he seeks a narrative expression of the opening epigraph: “It is impossible to think of nothing.” A young man sees his girlfriend’s ex leaving her apartment one early morning, and his imagination is off to the races, as stars Philippe Marlaud and Marie Rivière (The Green Ray) introduce a younger, less perfectly articulate type of Rohmer character than those of the “Moral Tales.”