A Man and a Woman Burt Hirschfeld PB 1968 Film VG Condition

Description: A Man and a Woman. Burt Hirschfeld. Paperback. First Popular Library edition 1968. Very good condition. The binding is tight. No creasing of the spine. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. Pages are discolored commensurate with age. The covers are clean with very minimal wear / edge wear. Price sticker on front cover. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. In the `60's, subtitled French movies were mainly shown in the "art theaters" in the United States, and it seems that I started with a somewhat prophetic movie Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de ville d'Avray) (Import - NTSC All Regions) in 1963. Four years later the subject classic French movie, still with its subtitles, broke out of the art theater "ghetto" and was shown in "mainstream theaters." Claude Lelouch directed the movie, as well as wrote the script. The stars were Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Trintignant. It was a story, yes, of love, at a more mature age, and how that can be complicated by the lover's "back stories." Realistically, my love life did not have much of a "back story" at the time, so I watched, and imagined what that might be. But mainly, I was "blown away," a phrase very much in use at the time, by the cinema photography. There was that climatic drive across France, before the autoroutes, from Monte Carlo to Deauville, and the swirling, mad embrace on the Normandy beach, not so far from where some troops went ashore, some two decades earlier. And two decades after this film's release, there was a suitably titled, but less well appreciated, Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later , with the same actor and actress.But what of the book from which it was derived? It was written by Burt Hirschfeld, and I was unfamiliar with his work. He had written 20 some novels; many appeared to be in the hopes that they might become movies. This was the only one in which he "hit it big." And now, more than four decades after I saw the movie, I decided to judge the merits of the book, along with assessing the central themes, now that I had my own "back stories."Aimee plays Anne Gauthier, who has a young daughter, Françoise (turns out that Aimee's real name is Françoise Sorya Dreyfus - and she is still with us). Jean-Louis Trintignant (also of the movie Z fame, and also still with us, living in the Vaucluse) plays Jean-Louis Duroc who has a young son, Antoine. Both the children are in boarding school at Deauville, and each of the parents, both widowed, as the story will reveal, visit them weekly, on trips from Paris, on Sunday. A perfect "set-up." Gauthier is in the movie business, behind the camera. Duroc is a race-car driver. I was surprised, at least as memory would have it, how faithfully the movie follows the novel.Her "back story" is tougher to overcome than his... and that is part of the beauty, and dramatic tension of both the movie and the novel. All those "flashbacks." Duroc even "sacrifices" a current fling, in the hopes of overcoming her "impediments" of memory. In the novel, and I do not believe, in the movie, negative characteristics of the former spouses of each are revealed. Duroc can let go of his memories easier, and perhaps understandably so. Much of Hirschfeld's novel had a true-to-life quality, but much also was a bit too simplistic and trite, and there were passages that explained France at a level suitable for one who had never been there.

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