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050			_aPN1997 _b.V540 1989
100			_aBertrand Tavernier _91285
240			_aLife and Nothing But
245	0	3	_aLa vie et rien d'autre _h[videorecording] = _bLife and Nothing But _cBertrand Tavernier
246	3	1	_aLife and Nothing But
260			_aFrance _bHachette Première _bAB Films _bLittle Bear _c1989
300			_a1 videodisc (135 min.) : _bsound, color. _c4 3/4 in.
500			_a<based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
520			_aFrom case cover: Deemed a "masterpiece" by critic David Thomson, LIFE AND NOTHING BUT is one of director Bertrand Tavernier's (LET JOY REIGN SUPREME, ROUND MIDNIGHT) most ambitious films. With this gorgeously photographed anti-war epic, Tavernier examines the emotional hurdles that separate rich from poor, men from women, history from truth and regret from hope. A year after W.W.I has ended, cynical Major Dellaplane has the difficult task of identifying and interring thousands of fallen French soldiers anonymously languishing in field hospitals and littering the vast Verdun battlefield. Dellaplane has also become reluctant shepherd to an ad hoc society grown around the legions of widowed wives and mothers combing the French countryside fro word of their loved ones. When a buried hospital train yields a fresh source of possibly recognizable bodies, Irene, a haughty Parisian aristocrat and Alice, a hopeful young schoolteacher, form an unlikely alliance with the Major. As the train's surprising cargo is revealed, the three searchers must choose between life in a post-war world stripped of illusions or the seductive self-imprisonment of bitterness and mourning for days, lives and loves gone by. Tavernier regular Noiret won a French Cesar for his performance opposite the "ravishingly gifted actress" (The Washington Post) Sabine Azema as Irene. In courageously and gracefully celebrating inexhaustible human resilience and burgeoning romance amidst unspeakably appalling loss, LIFE AND NOTHING BUT "conveys both the fragile and the indestructible" (The New York Times).
538			_aDVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Regions 1-6; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
546			_aFrench audio. Optional English subtitles.
700			_aBertrand Tavernier _eDirector _eScreenwriter _91285
700			_aJean Cosmos _eScreenwriter
700			_aPhilippe Noiret _eActor
700			_aSabine Azéma _eActor
700			_aPascale Vignal _eActor
942			_2lcc _cDVD