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Long unavailable, Olivier Assayas’s deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water has until now been a missing link in one of contemporary cinema’s richest bodies of work. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions against family and society threaten to tear them apart. The visceral realism of the movie’s narrative and the near experimentalism of its camera work come together effortlessly thanks to a rock soundtrack that vividly evokes the period. With one of the most memorable party sequences ever committed to film as a centerpiece, Cold Water is a heartbreaking immersion in the emotional tumult of being young. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Olivier Assayas, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack • New interview with Assayas • New interview with cinematographer Denis Lenoir • Excerpt from a 1994 French television program on the film featuring Assayas and actors Virginie Ledoyen and Cyprien Fouquet • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu

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A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.

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Claude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his prolific career—a coolly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life. A fascinatingly enigmatic, César Award–winning Isabelle Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightly coiled yang. They are, respectively, a small-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy family, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually, almost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s control of sound, editing, and suspense, Chabrol constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each brilliant shock with ice-pick precision. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Selected-scene commentary featuring director Claude Chabrol New introduction by filmmaker Bong Joon Ho Making-of program Archival interviews with Chabrol, actors Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire, and cowriter Caroline Eliacheff Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the use of offscreen sound Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by crime-fiction and true-crime expert Sarah Weinman

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Chief Inspector Elisabeth Guardiano (Virginie Ledoyen) is sent to the remote mountain village of Roquenoir to investigate a gruesome double murder. At the same time, Gendarmerie Captain Franck de Rolan (Paul Hamy) arrives in the small community to investigate the abduction of several local children. There is nothing to suggest a connection between the cases. But then Guardiano and de Rolan come across the ancient legend of the Soul Eater...