I have this one on vhs, Cal, and have wished for a dvd copy, too.  I did fall in love with little Louis, and couldn't believe a father would disappear from the life of a little boy so precious.

This movie had a deeper meaning for me, too.  It's the one that my wife walked in on me while I was enjoying a freeze frame moment late at night downstairs, and walked into the kitchen for a second while the frame was still frozen on the screen.  When I got back to the room with the television, and saw her standing there looking at the frame frozen on the screen, it was like the denouement of my life's story.  That defining moment when I had to say, 'Yes, I love that boy on the screen, and all that he is.  I love you, too, but my love for that boy isn't going to go away.'  Didn't turn out to be a bad moment; no, not at all.  We even watched a few foreign flicks together thereafter.  

I do still love that boy, though.  Always will...

Love,
Sir Jacob

Oh yeah, it worked out fine.  She's gone now.  

She did call last week and tell me she's moving back to town, though.  I'll have to see if she wants to come over and watch some more foreign flicks.  

I've been ordering a few lately so I'll be stocked up with plenty to watch over the upcoming holidays!  If you enter Le Grand Chemin in the search engine at Amazon.com and then click on 'show more like this' or whatever that link is, they have lots of good movies to order.  Too many!  Sir Jacob has to take a break from ordering for awhile.  

(*eyes twinkling*... He's located a copy of 'Edges of the Lord' through another source now, though.  If he gets it, caps will be coming soon!)

Love,
Sir Jacob


(Edited by Sir Jacob at 11:19 pm on Dec. 11, 2001)

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.... shucks...

This movie was released last month on R2 DVD in French with no subtitles.  The disk includes a recent 24-minute interview with the director interspersed with clips from the movie and with comments from Antoine.  It is interesting to see him all grown up -- he is quite a handsome young man.

cmbudx has made an excellent set of captures from this movie...  I've uploaded 50 of them to a gallery which is accessible on the following movie profile page. There are more than 50 in the entire set. The remainder of the captures will be available elsewhere or on request.

many thanks for the excellent caps, cmbudx.

Welcome del bosque!

You're right, the E. Wood version wasn't as good as the French one, but still very nice.

Welcome, del bosque!

Thanks for bringing back old memories.  I saw the version with Elijah Wood first.  Those were the days before I knew that European films were often more interesting than those from America.  When I found out that this was a remake and I looked up the original, it opened up a whole new world of movies for me.

I guess it was my gateway to the more serious stuff.