Le repos du guerrier = Warriors rest
April 7, 2011Le Repos du Guerrier or “The Warrior’s Rest”
Call Number: VHS01650
by Brigitte Bardot; Robert Hossein; Christiane Rocheford; Roger Vadim; Claude Choublier; Francis Cosne; Michel Serrault; Robert Dalban; Macha Méril; James Robertson Justice; Armand Thirard; Michel Magne; Cocinor (Firm); Video France (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English Subtitles
Publisher: [Indianapolis, IN : Kartes Video Communications, 1986, 1962]
Notes: Videocassette release of a 1962 French motion picture (98 min). Based on the novel of the same title by Christiane Rochefort. Film is also under the title “Love on a Pillow”.
Summary: When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.
Summary: When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man.
OCLC #: 46988396
Added: April 7, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
